CMS Week – April 15-19, 2024 at CERN and SM Emergency
My recent visit to CERN would have been sufficiently motivated by the CMS week, but I was not sure whether I should go because it was in the middle of the semester and I do not like to leave the…
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Beamtime at the LHC
First proton beams are in the machine for this year, 2024. It is always an exciting moment, even if we have done this for many many years already. To get a machine with 1232 dipole magnets and even more focusing…
MIT’s Dean of Science visits CMS
November 1, 2023 was the day that our own Nergis Mavalvala, our Dean came to CERN for the first time. Bolek the director of the Laboratory for Nuclear Science had invited her and she accepted, curious as we learned during…
Prompt CMS data processing reaches new record
The LHC program for this year will be concluded with one month of Heavy Ion (PbPb) collisions. It enables us to study the properties of matter in extreme conditions (a trillion times denser than the core of the sun) and…
Heavy Ion test run in 2022
After the usual one month heavy ion run of the LHC was canceled due to energy cost issues and the not that smooth startup of the LHC at least there was one day reserved to set up heavy ions and…