CMS
May 2013
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May 17, 2013signal to background: A banner day at the LHCAn artist honors the people and science of the CMS collaboration.
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May 7, 2013breaking: Smallest lab-made drop of liquid might cause strange particle behaviorA new result from the CMS collaboration takes a step toward revealing the origin of the mysterious ‘ridge effect.’
March 2013
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March 22, 2013signal to background: Great minds lauded at physics prize ceremonyA crowd full of stars from the field of particle physics—along with one from Hollywood—celebrated recent achievements.
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March 14, 2013breaking: One step closer to the Higgs bosonIn analyses of a fundamental characteristic of the newly discovered Higgs-like particle—the ways in which it decays—scientists see even more Higgs-like behavior.
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March 6, 2013breaking: Higgs-like particle still looking like the HiggsScientists have started to exclude some of the more exotic scenarios for the Higgs-like boson.
February 2013
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February 26, 2013logbook: Higgs-like particleEarly in the summer of 2012, excitement reached a peak as members of the CMS and ATLAS collaborations confirmed among themselves that they would soon announce the discovery of what looked like the Higgs boson.
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February 4, 2013feature: What’s next for the Large Hadron Collider?Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider made a major discovery, but the world’s highest-energy particle accelerator is just getting started.
January 2013
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January 21, 2013breaking: A bullet through an applePhysicists have begun the first full run of proton-lead collisions in the Large Hadron Collider to learn more about the beginning of our universe.
December 2012
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December 18, 2012feature: A model partnershipBucking the “ivory tower” stereotype, particle theorists dive into Large Hadron Collider experimental searches and come up with a new way to look at the data.
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December 11, 2012breaking: Fundamental Physics Prize recognizes Higgs huntersThe Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation will honor leaders at the Large Hadron Collider and its CMS and ATLAS experiments with a special $3 million prize.
November 2012
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November 26, 2012signal to background: Contributing to an LHC experiment, no transatlantic travel requiredScientists participate in the CMS experiment from afar using remote operations centers.
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November 15, 2012breaking: New particle-like structure confirmed at the LHCScientists at the CMS experiment at CERN have spotted an exotic combination of particles previously observed in the CDF experiment at Fermilab.
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November 8, 2012breaking: Lead-proton collisions yield surprising effect in CMS experimentCMS physicists have once again found a “ridge” in their data, this time in lead–proton collisions.
October 2012
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October 30, 2012feature: What else could the Higgs be?Scientists might need to go beyond the Standard Model to explain the mass of the Higgs-like boson observed at the Large Hadron Collider.
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October 11, 2012signal to background: Electronics in an extra dimension3D chips—smaller and more powerful than their 2D counterparts—are beginning to make an impact in industry. Now, Fermilab is working with industrial partners to fabricate prototype 3D chips for use in science.
September 2012
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September 11, 2012feature: From particle physics to the computing industryA new generation of computer scientists is applying unique skills learned in particle physics to tough problems in industry, working on everything from high-efficiency light bulbs to Internet search engines.
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September 10, 2012breaking: Scientists already planning for LHC long shutdownNext year, scientific collaborations will take full advantage of the Large Hadron Collider's time without beam.
August 2012
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August 15, 2012breaking: Experiments reveal new techniques in studying quark-gluon plasmaIn the past year, scientists have bulked up their toolkits with new ways to tweak and study a state of matter 100,000 times hotter than the interior of the Sun – the quark-gluon plasma.
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August 1, 2012breaking: Physicists show strengthened signals of Higgs-like particle in publicationsThe CMS and ATLAS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider released papers Tuesday confirming their earlier simultaneous, independent discovery of a particle that resembles the Standard Model Higgs boson.
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August 1, 2012feature: Particle physics tames big dataAs science produces an ever-growing flood of information, researchers in many fields struggle with how to collect, store, manage and distribute “big data.” Perhaps they could learn a thing or two from particle physics, a field that's been awash in enormous data sets for decades.
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