The heavy ion data taking nominally started on November 4 with some proton-proton reference runs and by now, November 14, has reached about half point. While we have seen a good start, neither the provided luminosity nor the refilling of…
An interesting crowd has gathered to a strategic, invitation-only meeting at SUNY, Stony Brook on Long Island. We are discussing the planning for the future. This is interesting and also not interesting, because the options are well known and nothing…
Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS) represent cutting-edge technology in high-resolution, low-material budget detectors, pivotal for particle physics applications. Our group is preparing to leverage this technology for vertex detection in a future FCC experiment. In parallel, our colleagues at MIT,…
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…
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…
Abid Patwa, the DOE manager of the High Energy Physics office, informed the US Higgs Factory coordinators in an email about exciting news from Washington DC: “As an FYI — Today afternoon, April 26, 2024, a joint “Statement of Intent…
For three days, much of the U.S. and international community met in a rainy Cambridge to discuss the plans of the Future Circular Collider and the future of the field. This was the second U.S. annual FCC workshop, and the…
On February 2, 2024 CERN concluded the midterm review of the FCC. The work is progressing at the required pace to be completed by the end of 2025 as planned. The document of over 700 pages found strong support by…
The community of High Energy Physicists comes together usually every three years in form of the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) and goes through a seminar on “Future Perspectives in High Energy Physics”. This year was special for a…
The message is out we are committed to host the 2nd Annual US FCC workshop here at MIT. Come and enjoy! The message Dear Colleagues, We hope you will join us for the 2nd annual US FCC Workshop at MIT…
