CERN Accelerating science

The LHC has now delivered 5 inverse femtobarns (fb⁻¹) of data in 2011, of which CMS has collected 4.53 fb⁻¹.

This year, for the first time, the winners of the Italian Physics, Mathematics and Informatics Olympiads received an unforgettable reward from the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR): a trip to CERN.

You have to be curious and creative to work for a project like CMS. Without these qualities, it would be impossible to build an instrument of its complexity. The CMS detector is a marvellous instrument at the forefront of technology and will open windows into 21^st century science.

On Friday 7^th October the LHC delivered, for the first time in the history of High Energy Physics, proton-proton collisions at the design frequency of 40 MHz, with bunches of protons colliding every 25 nanoseconds (ns), doubling the frequency achieved so far.

Three researchers behind the discovery that our Universe's expansion is accelerating have been awarded this year's Nobel prize for physics. Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess of the US and Brian Schmidt of Australia will divide the prize. [...]

Watch the very first TV episode of "What's new @ CERN" featuring CMS physicist Yves Sirois, John Ellis and other physicists talking about the Higgs Boson, the Standard Model, Supersymmetry and neutrinos. "What's new @ CERN" is a new monthly outreach TV programme produced by CERN.

The LHC has now delivered over 4 inverse femtobarns (fb⁻¹) of data in 2011, of which CMS has collected 3.7 fb⁻¹.

The international physics masterclasses allow high-school students to spend a day at a research institute and analyse real data from high-energy physics experiments.

Next short Technical Stop will take place from Monday the 7th to Friday the 11th of November 2011

On the evening of 23rd September CMS welcomed, for the second successive year, young local students to point 5 for an experience they will never forget - and this time we joined forces with TOTEM.