  The CMS collaboration has recently produced results of a number of searches
for new physics processes using data collected during the 2011 run of the Large
Hadron Collider. Up to 5 inverse femtobarns of proton-proton collisions at 7
TeV centre-of-mass energy have been used to search for the standard model Higgs
boson in five different decay modes, divided in 42 independent sub-channels.
The combination of the results has allowed CMS to set 95% confidence-level
limits on the Higgs boson mass, constraining it to lay in the region
114.4<M(H)<127 GeV or M(H)>600 GeV. An excess of events with a local
significance of 3.1 standard deviations is observed for M(H)=124 GeV; the
global significance of observing such an effect anywhere in the search range
110-600 GeV is estimated to be 1.5 standard deviations. A number of signatures
of supersymmetric particles have also been investigated, significantly
restricting the parameter space of natural low-scale theories. A search for the
rare decays of neutral bottom mesons to muon pairs, Bs to mu mu and Bd to mu
mu, has achieved the tightest limits to date, and is approaching the
sensitivity to measure the standard model branching ratios. As it happens,
though, the highly informative results extracted from 2011 data produce more
questions than answers; this doubles expectations for the 2012 run of LHC,
which will conclusively answer several of them.
