PSI Pixel Detector in the CERN CMS Experiment

(Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, June 20, 2013)

The CMS experiment at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) is searching for evidence of the Higgs particle. Although its discovery has been announced, more data is still being collected to increase the certainty of the discovery. One central instrument to this experiment is the pixel detector developed by the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI). This detector is the innermost detector in a set of detectors around the particle collision site. It locates particles to within one-thousandth of a millimeter, important for reconstructing the collision and the decay of potential Higgs particles. PSI also played a role in calculating the complex physics behind Higgs particle decay.