Particle physics or high-energy physics is the study of fundamental particles and forces that constitute matter and radiation. The field also studies combinations of elementary particles up to the sca
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, USA
The Compact Muon Solenoid experiment is one of two large general-purpose particle physics detectors built on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland and France. The goal of the CMS experiment
View of the CMS endcap through the barrel sections. The ladder to the lower right gives an impression of scale.
Panorama of CMS detector, 100m below the ground.
Half of the Hadron Calorimeter