If you buy just about any LHC physicist a beer, and talk for a while, eventually you'll learn that he or she lives for the day when we make the next great discovery at this amazing machine. Many of them are placing their bets on finding the Higgs…

Christophe Delaere, from the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium, has been with CMS for five years. Christophe works on the Tracker, the sub-detector that traces the path of charged particles that are formed in collisions at the LHC. Watch…

Record fill for CMS: recorded 35.5 pb-1 ("inverse picobarns") of collisions - almost as much as we recorded in the whole of 2010!

The t t-bar production cross section and top quark mass are measured in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV in a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36 inverse picobarns collected by the CMS experiment. The measurements…

The CMS collaboration is presenting its latest results this week at the annual Quark Matter conference, held this year in Annecy, France. The results are based on analyses of data collected during the LHC's heavy-ion run in the last two weeks of…

In our Universe today, quarks are always bound together by gluons to form "composite" particles such as protons and neutrons. The Quark-Gluon Plasma, or QGP, often described as a soup-like medium, is a hot, dense state in which these quarks and…

The CMS experiment has made several unique measurements using data from LHC collisions of lead nuclei (PbPb, November 2010) at centre-of-mass energies of 2.76 TeV per nucleon pair. Phenomena measured for the first time in nucleus-nucleus collisions…

The paper, accepted for publication in Physical Review D in April, presents the first measurement of Υ (Upsilon) production at a centre-of-mass collision energy of 7 TeV at the LHC. It is also the first analysis from CMS to be accepted for…

Maurizio Pierini has been with CMS since he first started work at CERN in 2007. He tells us about his work, his interests, and why physics is such a big part of his life. Watch movie

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) experiment, designed to study dark matter and anti-matter from the International Space Station, launched successfully aboard the Endeavour shuttle from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on 16th May, 2011…

Experimentalists at the Large Hadron Collider recently proved effective a simple, new method of looking for evidence of supersymmetry. The method addresses a challenge particle physicists often face in looking for new particles and processes: They…

At 13:25 on Sunday, 13th March, Deputy Run Coordinator, Luca Malgeri told CMS Times: “The current beam is going to be dumped soon, and the next fill is for collisions.” The LHC had its first stable beams of 2011 a little after 18:00…