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CMS restarts and continues working under Covid-19 conditions

One of the major objectives of CMS for LS2 is an early phase-2 electronics upgrade of the Cathode Strip Chambers (CSC), located on all three endcap disks, and the installation of one layer of triple Gas Electron Multiplier Chambers (GEM) on the…

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CERN experiments find first evidence for rare Higgs boson decay

The strength of the interaction between the Higgs field and a particle determines the mass it obtains from the Higgs and it is a mystery why the interaction strength is different for different particles. This puzzle is exacerbated as the leptons,…

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How to search for new physics without knowing about it?

BSM searches at the LHC increasingly profit from ML techniques since this approach allows more general searches that minimise the probability of missing evidence of new physics. Very recently, the ATLAS collaboration has published a novel approach […

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LHC experiments ramp-up activities

Around the world,research centres, laboratories and universities have closed as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic — forcing an increasing number of researchers to work from home. Researchers teleworking coordinated with colleagues who had to…

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CMS weighs in for the top quark

The top quark has a special position in the zoo of elementary particles, being the heaviest as well as one of the rarest fundamental particles ever sighted. With a mass of about 173 GeV, it has 40 times the mass of its partner, the bottom quark and…

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Towards high-precision luminosity for CMS in Run 3 and beyond

Luminosity is a key parameter for any collider-based high energy physics experiment as it links the interaction rates observed in an experiment to the cross sections of physics processes. Therefore, it is a key ingredient to most major analyses…

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Heterogeneous computing efforts for high-energy physics experiments

Substantial improvements to the current experiments at the LHC are underway, and new experiments are being proposed or discussed at future energy-frontier accelerators to answer fundamental questions in particle physics. At future hadron colliders,…

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Deep Neural Networks for particle reconstruction in high-granularity calorimeters

Precision measurements in high energy physics as well as an increasing amount of searches for new phenomena rely on a precise reconstruction of the event that caused a particular signature in the detector. Particle flow algorithms [1, 2, 3, 4] aim to…

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AMVA4NewPhysics legacy in searches for new physics

*/ A couple of months ago, the four-year life cycle of AMVA4NewPhysics, a Horizon2020-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (ITN), in which CERN participated as one of the member institutions, was completed. With the ultimate…

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Precision timing upgrade of the CMS detector

Soon after 2027, the LHC will enter the high luminosity era, known as HL-LHC. It will begin operations at a stable luminosity of 5.0×1034 cm−2 s−1, resulting in much higher collision rates than currently achievable, but with a pileup of 140…

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