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…
The clearest sign of the summer coming to an end is when September rolls in and the school year starts again. Eventually fall officially starts, this year it was on September 23. The Fall CMS week therefore was technically not…
This years conference of the European Physics Society (EPS) on High Energy Physics (HEP) took place in Hamburg. It was a wonderful showing of the present state of high energy physics. I personally had not visited the EPS in a…
The date was April 23rd, 2023. It was a gray and rainy Sunday, hardly the type of weather anyone would want to be outside in. But assembled outside of building 39 stood 7 unsuspecting students, perhaps looking a little dazed.…
