In November 2014, CMS made history by releasing its first batch of open data, comprising approximately 27 terabytes of proton-proton collision data collected in 2010 at a 7 TeV center-of-mass energy. This groundbreaking release marked the beginning o…

Above: Prof. Sir Adrian Smith FRS, the President of the Royal Society, with Tejinder. Photograph by the Royal Society Professor Sir Tejinder Singh Virdee FRS awarded the 2024 Royal Medal of the Royal Society Tejinder ‘Jim’ Virdee, from Imperial Coll…

This result is not a sprint, it is a marathon. How the teams behind the measurement of the W-boson mass at the CMS experiment found working on this result, almost a decade in the making. Precision measurements like that of the mass of the W boson are…