CMS experiment
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One of the two general-purposes experiment at the CERN's Large Hadron Collider
Key facts
- Atlas
- A Toroidal LHC Apparatus
- Cms
- Compact Muon Solenoid
- Lhcb
- LHC-beauty
- Alice
- A Large Ion Collider Experiment
- Totem
- Total Cross Section, Elastic Scattering and Diffraction Dissociation
- Lhcf
- LHC-forward
- Moedal
- Monopole and Exotics Detector At the LHC
- Faser
- ForwArd Search ExpeRiment
- Snd
- Scattering and Neutrino Detector
- P and pb
- Linear accelerators for protons (Linac 4) and lead (Linac 3)
- Not marked
- Proton Synchrotron Booster
- Ps
- Proton Synchrotron
- Sps
- Super Proton Synchrotron
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Encyclopedic overview
46°18′34″N 6°4′37″E / 46.30944°N 6.07694°E / 46.30944; 6.07694
View of the CMS endcap through the barrel sections. The ladder to the lower right gives an impression of scale.
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