The CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. University of Antwerp
Ghent University, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Particle Physics Group
Exploring elementary particles and their interactions is an age-old endeavour of humanity. With the 27 km circumference Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN and the monumental detectors around it, scientists from all over the world have access to the most advanced tools to continue this exploration. A major achievement was the experimental confirmation of the existence of the Higgs boson particle in 2012, some 50 years after it had been predicted ...