CMS News Archive
The search for microscopic black holes, as of March 2012
2012-05-07, by Alexey Ferapontov
The search for microscopic black holes at the LHC is motivated by the hierarchy problem — the huge observed difference between the strengths of the electroweak and gravitational forces.
Observation of a new Xi_b^*0 beauty particle
2012-04-27, by Lucas Taylor
New, excited Ξ*b0 baryon observed with more than 5 standard deviations significance at a mass of 5945.0 ± 2.8 MeV.
New "Physics Performance and Dataset" Group at CMS
2012-03-21, by Achintya Rao
The LHC provides CMS with millions of collisions each second, and a wealth of physics data is obtained from the proton-proton interactions. In order to record all these data for analyses, all CMS sub-detectors have to be performing optimally.
Physics Analysis Summaries for Moriond Conference (Electroweak)
2012-03-08, by Achintya Rao
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.
Search for rare decay of neutral B mesons to two muons
2012-02-28, by Achintya Rao
At a CERN seminar today, CMS presented results for the search for new physics in the decay of Bs and B0 mesons to two muons, taking into account all of the 4.9 fb−1 of data collected in 2011.
CMS Higgs boson search results from 2010-2011 data samples
2012-02-04, by Lucas Taylor
This week the CMS collaboration will publish the results of its search for the Higgs boson that were presented at CERN in December 2011 [1].
The Importance of Statistics in High-Energy Physics
2012-01-19, by Achintya Rao
“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.
CMS in 2011: A mountain of particle collision data
2012-01-05, by Jim Pivarski
Data are the currency of physics. As data accumulate, measurement uncertainty ranges narrow up to a certain point, increasing the potential for discoveries and making non-observations more stringent, with more far-reaching consequences.
The Weak Mixing of Light and Heavy
2011-11-01, by Andrei Gritsan
The source of energy for most of the life on our planet originates from proton-proton collisions at the core of the Sun, which occur at an energy (or temperature) about a billion times less than the collision energy of the LHC.
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