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A four-year project to produce two HL-ZDCs for one of the CMS collider’s main detectors was approved for funding. The detectors will be fabricated and assembled at KU’s Mechanical Prototyping Lab, tested with high-energy particle beams at Fermilab and installed at CERN for the next phase of physics research at the supercollider.

Italian native and Fermilab senior scientist, Anadi Canepa, is the current spokesperson for the CMS experiment at CERN. CMS is one of two large experiments at the LHC and has one of the largest scientific collaborations in the world.

A 2022 measurement of the W boson’s mass by the CDF experiment at the Fermilab, while the most precise measurement, differed from the Standard Model prediction. Now, a new calculation of the W boson particle by the CMS collaboration agrees with the Standard Model.

The CMS experiment at CERN is building a new detector that will unravel the chaotic particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider, helping scientists identify particles based on their speeds.

The intensive program trains the next generation of researchers in advanced particle physics, data analysis and agentic artificial intelligence.

The Fermilab senior scientist brings a wealth of scientific leadership experience to her new role as the collaboration prepares for the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider.

The American Physical Society has honored researchers at Fermilab for their outstanding contributions to physics. These recognitions include major APS prizes and fellowships, underscoring the laboratory’s leadership in advancing scientific discovery.

CMS scientists recently formed the first prototype “cassette” for the new endcap calorimeters which will be the largest silicon-based detectors ever built when complete. This technology will increase in the number of particles that the HL-LHC will deliver and result in 4 to 5 times more simultaneous particle collisions than occur with the existing LHC.

The discovery of the Higgs boson announced on July 4, 2012 by teams working at the ATLAS and CMS confirmed the theoretical framework proposed in the 1960s by Peter Higgs and others.

Fermilab Distinguished Scientist Patricia McBride was invited to Santa Monica, California to accept the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics on behalf of the CMS collaboration.