CMS Annual Meeting 2025German CMS community meets in Hamburg

13 October 2025

Photo: UHH/RRZ MCC Mentz

Scientists from research institutes around the world are conducting research at the CMS detector of the LHC particle accelerator at CERN. A small group from this international collaboration gathered in Hamburg in mid-September for the annual meeting of the German CMS community.

From September 17 to 19, 2025, the University of Hamburg hosted the annual meeting of all German research institutes involved in the CMS experiment. The meeting focused on current highlights from research with the CMS detector and strategic topics related to the experiment.

Over three days, the annual conference brought together around 150 participants from German research institutions who are working to uncover the secrets of the smallest building blocks of matter as part of the international CMS collaboration at the LHC particle accelerator at CERN in Geneva. Topics such as the recently observed quasi-bound di-top system, the search for new physics, Higgs particle, the further development of algorithms and hardware for operating the detector, and the evaluation of data, as well as the use of artificial intelligence methods, were on the conference agenda. In addition, participants discussed perspectives for research funding and current and planned activities in the CMS experiment. The conference also included an outlook on the European particle physics strategy process.

Germany's participation in CERN's CMS experiment is organized within the framework of one of four research priorities of the framework program “Exploring the Universe and Matter.” The Federal Ministry of Research, Technology, and Space (BMFTR) finances the framework program. The German CMS community meets every year at a different CMS location. The baton for next year's conference has been passed to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).