If you have not yet noticed, Particle Physics is going through a very critical period. The energy frontier—also known as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)—has reached its midpoint after it started in 2009 and is expected to finish sometimes in…
Every January, I head from Geneva (CERN) to Boston for a couple of weeks to work with students on Future Circular Collider (FCC) Physics analysis projects at MIT. It’s something I look forward to every year, and this time was…
It is the third year we are making January a very busy month for undergraduate students here at MIT and at other places to learn and contribute to the planned FCC project. What started in Fall 2022 as a vague…
The CMS Tier-2 was installed at Bates in 2009 as part of the High Performance Research Computing Facility (HPRCF), and look how far it got us. One of the cornerstones of the computing center is of course the chiller which…
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…
