Behind the scenes of the CMS experiment's 1000th paper

What does it take to publish a scientific analysis in one of the world's largest experiments? After three years of searching, CMS physicist Hannsjörg Weber found what he was looking for. He and his colleagues finally unblinded the data from trillions of collisions at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, revealing information that was previously hidden-even from themselves. "We were excited, but also all on edge," says Weber, a postdoc at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, a US Department of E...