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These event displays are visual representations of particle collisions, reconstructed from signals recorded by the CMS detector. 🎆
In each collision, a variety of particles is born — but here’s the mystery: we don’t yet know exactly what came out. Was it a photon? A muon? Or something more elusive?⚛️
Detecting them precisely needs a multipurpose detector like CMS, with different specialised layers!
As these particles pass through the detector, they leave a diverse set of traces, such as energy deposits and a range of particle tracks, all captured with great precision by CMS.
But do signals give the full picture? 🤔 Well, not completely!
To reconstruct what happens during a collision, our teams take into account the signals that are recorded and imbalances in the detector due to the passage of invisible particles (such as neutrinos)– i.e. what we cannot directly see to create the full picture.
All of this is processed and transformed into these stunning images using specialised software! 💻
⚛️ Which event display do you like the most?
Thank you to Tom McCauley for these displays!
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