The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment is one of two large general-purpose particle physics detectors being built on the proton-proton Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland and France. Approximately 2600 people from 180 scientific institutes form the CMS collaboration building and operating the detector. It is located in an underground cavern at Cessy in France, just across the border from Geneva. The completed detector is cylindrical, 21 metres long, 16 metres in diameter, weighs approximately 12,500 tonnes, and is commissioned since August, 2008.
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