Physics · Computational & Experimental Methods
A topic within Computational & Experimental Methods, itself one of 8 topics in that field and part of Physics.
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CMS Collaboration
Describes the design and construction of the CMS detector at the LHC, an instrument built to be sensitive to physics its designers could not yet predict.
link checked 17 Sept 2026LIGO Scientific Collaboration (J. Aasi et al.)
Details the kilometre-scale interferometer, sensitive to a strain of about one part in 10^21, that made a direct detection of gravitational waves possible for the first time.
link checked 17 Sept 2026