CERN Accelerating science

The paper, accepted for publication in Physical Review D in April, presents the first measurement of Υ (Upsilon) production at a centre-of-mass collision energy of 7 TeV at the LHC.

Maurizio Pierini has been with CMS since he first started work at CERN in 2007. He tells us about his work, his interests, and why physics is such a big part of his life.
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The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) experiment, designed to study dark matter and anti-matter from the International Space Station, launched successfully aboard the Endeavour shuttle from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on 16^th May, 2011.

Experimentalists at the Large Hadron Collider recently proved effective a simple, new method of looking for evidence of supersymmetry.