First dsy of school
We are back at it.
Christoph Paus
Catching up in August?
When the summer turns really hot and it is late July in Geneva there is usually a notable slow down. August is coming and everybody knows this is the time when people take their vacation, they go to the seaside…
Congratulations Dr. Yang
On August 14, 2024 at 10am the Kolker room was well populated by experimental and theoretical physicists mostly. Tianyu Yang’s thesis was on the agenda for today and it was a wonderful presentation which also served as his thesis defense.…
Disappearing ‘Anomalies’ at ICHEP 2024
The most important particle physics conference this year, ICHEP 2024 in Prague, was coined the conference of ‘Disappearing Anomalies’ by one of me esteemed colleagues when I asked him on the last day what he found most remarkable about this…
The 2024 Users Meeting at FNAL
Today I was invited to speak about the status of the FCC-ee case in terms of physics and detectors at the 2024 Users Meeting at Fermilab. The Annual Users Meeting is a Fermilab tradition—it was meeting number 57—where the status…
CERN UROPs in the Summer of 2024
Summer at CERN is special with the PPC. We usually have a flock of undergraduate students going to CERN to perform research with our group. The students are mostly funded through the MISTI and the IROP (international UROP) programs and…
2024 USCMS Meeting in Princeton
USCMS meetings are held yearly in the US rotating in some semi random way between the different US institutions that are involved in the CMS experiment. The most important factor is of course the willingness of the local group or…
FCC Week 2024 in San Francisco
About 450 people participated in this years FCC Week, where the full FCC project is reviewed in many sessions and even more presentations. The majority of them in parallel. The scene was set in the old St. Francis Hotel in…
Fast CMS submission for publication
The CMS collaboration has just submitted the paper of diboson production, WW, at 13.6 TeV, which is from Run 3 data. No new physics discovered, and the standard model still holds. The original analysis was first presented end of March,…
LHC ‘remarkably’ on schedule
From the recent Advisory Committee of CERN Users (ACCU) meeting at CERN the performance of the LHC during the ongoing year has been discussed and—I am impressed—the LHC turns out to be perfectly on schedule and if the run continued…