Research, teaching and public engagement in Physics at UW–Madison
Could there be more particles like the Higgs boson? For the first time, the CMS experiment has searched for the decay of the Higgs boson into two more Higgs-boson-like particles with unequal masses. Written by: Ashling Quinn ’23 and Anagha Aravind (physics PhD student), originally published by the CMS Collaboration Some theories suggest that the Higgs …
Ten years ago, on July 4, 2012, the CMS and ATLAS collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN — including many current and former UW–Madison physicists — announced they had discovered a particle that was consistent with predictions of the Higgs boson. In the ten years since, scientists have confirmed the finding was …
In June 2020, The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) collaboration announced the submission of its 1000th scientific publication since the experiment began a decade ago. With multiple University of Wisconsin–Madison physics faculty involved in CMS over the years, the physics department wanted to use this milestone to celebrate their achievements. CMS is an international collaboration of …