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Each year, scientists with the Office of Science, at our national laboratories, and supported by the Office of Science at the nation’s colleges and universities, publish thousands of research findings in the scientific literature. About 200 of these are selected annually by their respective program areas in the Office of Science as publication highlights of special note.

Archive of past publication highlights.

This display shows an actual particle collision in the CMS detector resulting in the production of a Higgs boson candidate that subsequently decayed into two bottom quarks.
CMS observes Higgs boson decays into bottom quarks, furthering our knowledge of how the particles that make up matter behave.