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.

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instanceOf CERN experiment
LHC experiment
general-purpose detector
particle detector
abbreviation CMS
collaborationCountries over 40 countries
collaborationSize thousands of scientists
collidesParticleType lead ions
protons
constructionStartDate 1998
contributedToDiscoveryOf Higgs boson
coordinateSystem right-handed cylindrical coordinates
dataAcquisition high-rate DAQ system
dataTakingEnergy 13 TeV center-of-mass
13.6 TeV center-of-mass
7 TeV center-of-mass
8 TeV center-of-mass
designedFor heavy-ion collisions
high-energy proton-proton collisions
firstPhysicsRun 2010
fundedBy international funding agencies
hasMagneticFieldStrength about 3.8 tesla
hasSubsystem electromagnetic calorimeter
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
surface form: Geneva region

Large Hadron Collider
Meyrin
locatedOnBorderOf France
Switzerland
operatedBy CMS Collaboration
partOf LHC physics program
primaryGoal study of the Higgs boson
researchField high-energy physics
particle physics
shape cylindrical
surrounds LHC beam pipe
triggerSystem multi-level trigger
usesTechnology cathode strip chambers
drift tubes
lead tungstate crystals
resistive plate chambers
silicon pixel detectors
website https://cms.cern

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