Sometimes being a physicist means giving detector parts the window seat.
CMS
From Forbes, Dec. 2, 2016: The latest search results released by the CMS collaboration rule out two classes of hypothetical particles, gluinos and squarks, below about 1.4 TeV in energy.
From Nature, Aug. 5, 2016: The intriguing data “bump” at the Large Hadron Collider — first reported in December — turns out to be nothing more than a statistical fluctuation.
What’s it like to be part of an experiment collaboration in the weeks and days before a big announcement?
Possible signs of new particle seem to have washed out in an influx of new data.
The Higgs appeared in the second run of the LHC about twice as fast as it did in the first.
Higgs bosons should mass-produce bottom quarks. So why is it so hard to see it happening?
A high school science class participates in CMS data analysis through QuarkNet.
From BBC News, March 11, 2016: You can look in any direction inside this video of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, including a view of the CMS detector.
Joel Butler will lead the LHC experiment starting in September.