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The Large Hadron Collider at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland is opening new vistas on the deepest secrets of the universe, stretching the imagination with newly discovered forms of matter, forces of nature, and dimensions of space. This site provides general information about the Large Hadron Collider and detailed information about American participation in the LHC accelerator and experiments. U.S. LHC participation is supported by the US Department of Energy's Office of Science and the National Science Foundation.

A proton-proton collision event in the CMS experiment producing two high-energy photons (red towers). This is what we would expect to see from the decay of a Higgs boson but it is also consistent with background Standard Model physics processes. (Courtesy: CERN)

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Boston University

Members of the Boston University CMS group. Courtesy Boston University.

Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts, is involved in both the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.

The CMS group includes three faculty members, three PhD physicists, four engineers, and six students.

Boston University and the CMS Experiment

Construction Contributions

We contributed to the HCAL electronics of the CMS detector.

Current Projects and Future Goals

We are involved in HCAL and trigger commissioning. We are also commissioning new photo-detectors and involve in jet and W/Z physics.

Boston University was involved in constructing and commissioning the CMS detector

Boston University will continue to monitor data quality as it comes in. Courtesy Boston University.

We will be monitoring data quality as it comes in and conducting first physics analyses.