The CMS detector, illustrated in Fig. 1, is centred around the largest and highest granularity silicon tracker ever built, including around twenty thousand detector units structured in thin cylindrical layers that extend over nearly 6 metres along…
“The important thing”, says Einstein, “is not to stop questioning”, and we, as humans, never have. What is it all made up of? How does it fit together? We’ve been yearning to answer these questions for aeons, with our collective efforts…
CMS sees evidence of the Upsilon meson decaying into two tau leptons for the first time at a hadron collider
Beyond our best current understanding of particle physics, encapsulated in the standard model, various theoretical models predict the…