A new result by the CMS Collaboration narrows down the mass of the Higgs boson to a precision of 0.1%.
After reporting the observation of the Higgs boson at the CERN LHC in 2012, scientists the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations have been busy…
05 Mar 2013
CMS is presenting a wide range of results for the annual winter conference, Rencontres de Moriond. The first week of Moriond — 3–8 March — is devoted primarily to electroweak (EW) studies. Among the CMS results are further studies of the recently…
22 Nov 2012
At the Hadron Collider Physics (HCP) Symposium held in Kyoto, Japan on 12–16 November 2012, CMS presented many new results, including updates on the search for the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson as well as Supersymmetry (SUSY). Several of these…
18 Sep 2012
Here is a delightful poem written by Erich Harth, an Emeritus Professor from Syracuse University, in the wake of the discovery announcement from CMS and ATLAS.
A World without the Higgs
We eagerly await to learn
The latest thrilling news from…
30 Aug 2012
The July 4th 2012 announcement was widely covered by press. For a small selection of some of the main stories see:
Archive of full articles (PDF files in CDS)
Archive of screenshots and photos of articles in newspapers, magazines, etc.
Below is…
02 Jul 2012
The Higgs boson is a particle associated with the electroweak-symmetry breaking mechanism that was proposed in the 1960s and is a vital component of the Standard Model of particle physics. It is believed that all fundamental particles in the known…
16 Apr 2012
A new year with new energy and new luminosities: 2012 holds the promise to close the question on the existence (or absence) of a Standard Model Higgs boson.
Besides the obvious challenges posed by the LHC restart at a higher energy and a much…
08 Mar 2012
CMS has presented a rich variety of results at the Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories sessions of the Rencontres de Moriond conference in La Thuile, Italy. Links to the Physics Analysis Summaries (PAS) from CMS made public in the last…
19 Jan 2012
“If you remember, Mark Twain once said, ‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.’ If you use statistics in an improper way, you could get pretty much any result,” says Greg Landsberg, CMS’s new physics coordinator. “The…
18 Jan 2012
On 10th January, a delegation from Serbia, led by President Boris Tadic, arrived at CERN to sign the agreement that would grant Serbia associate membership to CERN, as a step towards full membership. The agreement has to be ratified by the Serbian…
13 Dec 2011
CERN, 13th December 2011
The statement below is also available as PDF files in: Chinese (traditional) | Chinese (simplified) | Croatian | Dutch | English | Finnish | French | German | Greek | Hungarian | Italian | Persian | Polish | Spanish |…
16 Nov 2011
Science is closing in on the most elusive thing in the Universe.