CMS
[Compact Muon Solenoid]
CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) is a particle physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, it is one of two large general-purpose detectors at the LHC.
CMS is designed to see a wide range of particles and phenomena produced in high-energy collisions in the LHC. Like a cylindrical onion, different layers of detector stop and measure the different particles, and use this key data to build up a picture of events at the heart of the collision.
The CMS experiment will investigate a wide range of physics, including the search for the Higgs boson, extra dimensions, and particles that could make up dark matter. Although it has the same scientific goals as the ATLAS experiment, it uses different technical solutions and design of its detector magnet system to achieve these.
There are 3600 people working for CMS, 3000 of which are scientists and engineers. These people come from 183 institutes in 38 countries, spanning Europe, Asia, the Americas and Australasia.
One of the endcap sections of the CMS experiment, waiting to be lowered into the experimental cavern
Credit: STFC
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