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Tracing the Path to Precision: The Historical Evolution of Electroweak Physics at the LHC
The unification of the electromagnetic and weak-nuclear forces into an electroweak theory was one of the major breakthroughs of 20th century particle physics. In the 1960s, Steven Weinberg, Sheldon Glashow, and Abdus Salam proposed that these two…
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Extended Scalar Sectors are considered from all angles at CERN
It has been more than ten years since the discovery of the first scalar particle at the electroweak scale. This particle was discovered at the LHC in 2012, and it was quickly found to be a scalar that is compatible with the Higgs boson predicted by…
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LHC Run 3: A Marathon of Progress and Perseverance
Earlier this month, the Large Hadron Collider reached an unprecedented milestone of 100 inverse femtobarns – equivalent to 10 million billion collisions – delivered to the ATLAS and CMS experiments in 2024, with 28 days of proton-proton collisions…
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CMS Detector in 2024: Advancements in Data Collection and Detector Performance
On April 5th, 2024, stable beams returned to the LHC, marking the official start of the 2024 physics data-taking season. The photo captures CMS' Run Coordination team in the newly upgraded CMS control center, ready to oversee the exciting season…
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CMS Releases Extensive 13 TeV Collision Data for Open Science
The CMS experiment at CERN recently announced the release of 13 TeV proton-proton collision data from 2016. Over 70 TB of collision data and 830 TB of corresponding simulations are now available through the CERN Open Data Portal, marking a…
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Groundbreaking Observation of Quantum Entanglement in Top Quarks at the LHC
Researchers using the ATLAS detector at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have achieved a breakthrough: the first observation of quantum entanglement in top quark pairs. This discovery, analyzing proton-proton collisions at incredibly high energies…
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Probing Anomalies: CMS experiment investigates possible hints of new physics
For a few years, the work of the LHC community has been split between the exploitation of the LHC Run2 and first Run3 data and the preparation for the High Luminosity (HL) phase. At the HL-LHC, the effort of searching for new physics will be…
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NextGen Triggers: Pioneering R&D for HL-HC Data Acquisition and Event Processing
The High-Luminosity LHC upgrade will provide an unprecedented challenge to the data acquisition and online event processing capabilities of ATLAS and CMS. Both experiments are currently undergoing major upgrades to prepare their detectors to cope…
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Edge SpAIce: Leveraging CERN's AI for Real-Time Ocean Plastic Tracking from Space
Earth Observation (EO) and particle physics research have more in common than you might think. In both environments, whether capturing fleeting particle collisions or detecting transient traces of ocean plastics, rapid and accurate data analysis is…
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Navigating the Data Tsunami: CMS Prompt Data Processing and Distribution in Run 3
Improvements implemented in the CMS trigger and data acquisition systems before the start of Run 3 LHC in 2022 have enabled an increase in both the event rate and the volume of useful data collected by the CMS detector, thereby broadening its…
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