Compact Muon Solenoid
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The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is a large general-purpose particle detector at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider designed to investigate a wide range of high-energy physics phenomena, including the Higgs boson and potential new particles.
All labels observed (5)
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| Compact Muon Solenoid canonical | 4 |
| CMS detector | 2 |
| Compact Muon Solenoid detector | 2 |
| CMS collaboration | 1 |
| Compact Muon Solenoid experiment | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Target entity: Compact Muon Solenoid Context triple: [Point 5 of the LHC ring, hosts, Compact Muon Solenoid]
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A.
Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, used to smash subatomic particles together at unprecedented energies to study fundamental physics, including the Higgs boson.
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Tevatron
Tevatron was a circular particle accelerator at Fermilab that for many years was the world’s highest-energy collider, crucial in advancing high-energy physics research.
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ATLAS
ATLAS is a major particle physics experiment and detector at the Large Hadron Collider that investigates fundamental particles and forces, including the Higgs boson.
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DØ detector
The DØ detector is a large particle physics experiment at Fermilab’s Tevatron collider designed to study high-energy proton–antiproton collisions and probe fundamental particles and forces.
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E.
Super Proton Synchrotron
The Super Proton Synchrotron is a high-energy circular particle accelerator at CERN that serves both as a research machine and as a key injector for the Large Hadron Collider.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Compact Muon Solenoid Target entity description: The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is a large general-purpose particle detector at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider designed to investigate a wide range of high-energy physics phenomena, including the Higgs boson and potential new particles.
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A.
Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, used to smash subatomic particles together at unprecedented energies to study fundamental physics, including the Higgs boson.
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B.
Tevatron
Tevatron was a circular particle accelerator at Fermilab that for many years was the world’s highest-energy collider, crucial in advancing high-energy physics research.
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C.
ATLAS
ATLAS is a major particle physics experiment and detector at the Large Hadron Collider that investigates fundamental particles and forces, including the Higgs boson.
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D.
DØ detector
The DØ detector is a large particle physics experiment at Fermilab’s Tevatron collider designed to study high-energy proton–antiproton collisions and probe fundamental particles and forces.
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E.
Super Proton Synchrotron
The Super Proton Synchrotron is a high-energy circular particle accelerator at CERN that serves both as a research machine and as a key injector for the Large Hadron Collider.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
CERN experiment
ⓘ
LHC experiment ⓘ general-purpose detector ⓘ particle detector ⓘ |
| abbreviation | CMS ⓘ |
| collaborationCountries | over 40 countries ⓘ |
| collaborationSize | thousands of scientists ⓘ |
| collidesParticleType |
lead ions
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protons ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1998 ⓘ |
| contributedToDiscoveryOf | Higgs boson ⓘ |
| coordinateSystem | right-handed cylindrical coordinates ⓘ |
| dataAcquisition | high-rate DAQ system ⓘ |
| dataTakingEnergy |
13 TeV center-of-mass
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13.6 TeV center-of-mass ⓘ 7 TeV center-of-mass ⓘ 8 TeV center-of-mass ⓘ |
| designedFor |
heavy-ion collisions
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high-energy proton-proton collisions ⓘ |
| firstPhysicsRun | 2010 ⓘ |
| fundedBy | international funding agencies ⓘ |
| hasMagneticFieldStrength | about 3.8 tesla ⓘ |
| hasSubsystem |
electromagnetic calorimeter
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CMS subdetectors ⓘ
surface form:
hadron calorimeter
muon system ⓘ silicon tracker ⓘ superconducting solenoid magnet ⓘ |
| HiggsDiscoveryYear | 2012 ⓘ |
| hostedBy | CERN ⓘ |
| investigates |
Higgs boson
ⓘ
dark matter candidates ⓘ electroweak interactions ⓘ extra dimensions ⓘ flavor physics ⓘ heavy-ion physics ⓘ quantum chromodynamics ⓘ supersymmetry ⓘ top quark ⓘ |
| locatedAt | CERN ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
canton of Geneva
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surface form:
Geneva region
Large Hadron Collider ⓘ Meyrin ⓘ |
| locatedOnBorderOf |
France
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Switzerland ⓘ |
| operatedBy | CMS Collaboration ⓘ |
| partOf | LHC physics program ⓘ |
| primaryGoal | study of the Higgs boson ⓘ |
| researchField |
high-energy physics
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particle physics ⓘ |
| shape | cylindrical ⓘ |
| surrounds | LHC beam pipe ⓘ |
| triggerSystem | multi-level trigger ⓘ |
| usesTechnology |
cathode strip chambers
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drift tubes ⓘ lead tungstate crystals ⓘ resistive plate chambers ⓘ silicon pixel detectors ⓘ |
| website | https://cms.cern ⓘ |
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Subject: Compact Muon Solenoid Description of subject: The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is a large general-purpose particle detector at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider designed to investigate a wide range of high-energy physics phenomena, including the Higgs boson and potential new particles.
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