Scientists of the US CMS collaboration joined colleagues around the world in announcing that the heaviest piece of the Compact Muon Solenoid particle detector has begun the momentous journey into its ...

The world's largest superconducting solenoid magnet has reached full field. Weighing in at over 10,000 tonnes, the CMS experiment's magnet is built around a 6-metre diameter, 13-metre long ...

To understand the subatomic processes unfolding at the center of powerful particle collisions, scientists design and build huge, massive detectors. The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector, currently ...

In August 2006, scientists working on the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at CERN conducted a Cosmic Challenge to test components of their 12,500-ton CMS particle detector. Using cosmic ...

It's an amazing engineering challenge -- the lowering of the first tremendous endcap disc of the CMS experiment slowly and carefully 100 m underground into the experimental cavern. The disc is one of ...

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The two beams of protons will speed through their underground tunnels at a site straddling the border between France and Switzerland. The tubes here house the high-power magnets that guide the beams.

image: It's an amazing engineering challenge -- the lowering of the first tremendous endcap disc of the CMS experiment slowly and carefully 100 m underground into the experimental cavern. The disc is ...