Compact Muon Solenoid
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LHC experiments | |
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ATLAS | A Toroidal LHC Apparatus |
CMS | Compact Muon Solenoid |
LHCb | LHC-beauty |
ALICE | A Large Ion Collider Experiment |
TOTEM | Total Cross Section, Elastic Scattering and Diffraction Dissociation |
LHCf | LHC-forward |
MoEDAL | Monopole and Exotics Detector At the LHC |
FASER | ForwArd Search ExpeRiment |
SND | Scattering and Neutrino Detector |
LHC preaccelerators | |
p and Pb | Linear accelerators for protons (Linac 4) and lead (Linac 3) |
(not marked) | Proton Synchrotron Booster |
PS | Proton Synchrotron |
SPS | Super Proton Synchrotron |
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment is one of two large general-purpose particle physics detectors built on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland and France. The goal of the CMS experiment is to investigate a wide range of physics, including the search for the Higgs boson, extra dimensions, and particles that could make up dark matter.
CMS is 21 metres long, 15 m in diameter, and weighs about 14,000 tonnes.[1] Over 4,000 people, representing 206 scientific institutes and 47 countries, form the CMS collaboration who built and now operate the detector.[2] It is located in a cavern at Cessy in France, just across the border from Geneva. In July 2012, along with ATLAS, CMS tentatively discovered the Higgs boson.[3][4][5] By March 2013 its existence was confirmed.[6]