CMS experiment

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The CMS experiment is a major general-purpose particle physics detector at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider designed to investigate a wide range of phenomena including the Higgs boson, dark matter candidates, and physics beyond the Standard Model.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Large Hadron Collider experiment
general-purpose detector
particle physics experiment
accelerator Large Hadron Collider
acronym CMS
centerOfMassEnergy 13 TeV
5.02 TeV (heavy ions)
7 TeV
8 TeV
collaborationCountries over 50 countries
collaborationSize over 4000 scientists
collisionType heavy-ion collisions
proton–proton collisions
constructionStart 1998
coordinateSystem right-handed Cartesian
country Switzerland
dataFormat ROOT
dataTakingMode triggered readout
designedToStudy Higgs boson
dark matter candidates
electroweak interactions
extra dimensions
physics beyond the Standard Model
quantum chromodynamics
supersymmetry
top quark properties
detectorDiameter about 15 m
detectorLength about 21.6 m
detectorMass about 14,000 tonnes
detectorType cylindrical, layered detector
firstPhysicsRun Run 1
fullName Compact Muon Solenoid
fundingModel international collaboration of institutes and agencies
governingBody CERN
hasSubsystem electromagnetic calorimeter
hadronic calorimeter
muon system
silicon tracker
superconducting solenoid magnet
HiggsDiscoveryYear 2012
HiggsMassMeasurement about 125 GeV
hostFacility CERN
locatedAt CERN
Large Hadron Collider
locatedIn Meyrin, Switzerland
magneticFieldStrength 3.8 tesla
notableDiscovery Higgs boson
operatedBy CMS Collaboration
physicsProgram precision measurements of Standard Model processes
searches for new particles
studies of quark–gluon plasma
primaryGoal study proton–proton collisions at the LHC
researchField high-energy physics
particle physics
sharedDiscoveryWith ATLAS experiment
startOfDataTaking 2010
triggerSystem two-level trigger system
website https://cms.cern


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