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The CMS experiment
CMS is one of the two general purpose detectors for the
proton-proton collider of CERN,
the LHC.
CMS is an international collaboration in which Belgium and in particular
Brussels (ULB-VUB) has an important participation. The Brussels group
has participated in the contruction of the endcap tracker detector of CMS.
The Brussels teams are activily involved in the physics analysis preparation.
The CMS home page
The CMS Times - Weekly Online Newsletter
Start of the LHC : November 2009 !
07 November 2009 : beam splash event seen by CMS !
see CMS e-commentary for 2009 LHC beams
Info on the LHC : see here
The main purposes of CMS are to study the mechanism of
spontaneous symmetry breaking in electroweak interactions and to
explore physics beyond the Standard Model.
LHC is definitively a discovery machine!
It will nevertheless also allow physicists to study Standard Model processes
more deeply as for example top quark
physics, as well as heavy ion collisions at unprecedented energy.
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