The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is a general-purpose detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It has a broad physics programme ranging from studying the Standard Model (including the Higgs boson) to searching for extra dimensions and particles that could make up dark matter.

Apr 8, 2025 · The CMS experiment achieves the most precise determination of the strength of the strong nuclear force using the rates of production of jets at several centre-of-mass energies. The strengths of the fundamental interactions in Nature drive the…

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment is one of two large general-purpose particle physics detectors built on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland and France. The goal of the CMS experiment is to investigate a wide range of physics, including the search for the Higgs boson , extra dimensions , and particles that could ...

Apr 8, 2025 · The CMS detector. (Photo provided by CERN/Maximilien Brice) The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Collaboration at CERN, which includes significant contributions from Purdue University physicists, has been awarded the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for its groundbreaking work at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland.

Apr 11, 2017 · The CMS Collaboration has a broad physics programme, ranging from measurements of Standard Model quantities and the recently discovered Higgs boson, to studies of heavy-ion collisions, and searches for new particles, phenomena, and even extra dimensions in …

Apr 7, 2025 · This weekend, the ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN were honoured with the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. The prize is awarded to the four collaborations, which unite thousands of researchers from more than 70 countries, and concerns the papers authored based on LHC Run-2 data up to July 2024.

Apr 2, 2025 · CERN’s Large Hadron Collider continues to deliver surprises. While searching for additional Higgs bosons, the CMS collaboration may have instead uncovered evidence for the smallest composite particle yet observed in nature – a “quasi-bound” hadron made up of the most massive and shortest-lived fundamental particle known to science and ...

Feb 26, 2019 · Now that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) beam has been switched off for a two-year technical stop, Long Shutdown 2 (LS2), CMS is preparing for significant maintenance work and upgrades. All the LHC experiments at CERN want to exploit the full benefits of the accelerator’s upgrade, the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), scheduled to start in 2026.

Fermilab is the host laboratory in the U.S. that facilitates participation of hundreds of U.S. physicists from more than fifty institutions in the CMS experiment at CERN. Fermilab CMS plays a leading role in detector construction and operations, computing and software, and data analysis.

The photo captures CMS' Run Coordination team in the newly upgraded CMS control center, ready to oversee the exciting season ahead. The CMS detector is effectively collecting data in 2024, marking a full year of proton-proton (pp) production.