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 CERN director, Fabiola Gianotti, goes through her usual New Years address and presents accomplishments of the last year and the plans for the coming year(s). An amazing talk as every year because there is a lot going on at…
The long awaited P5 report is out! … and, speaking for myself here, it is not exactly what I imagined, but it is a formidable piece of work, which is bold and cautious at the same time. In big strokes…
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…
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…
High Energy Physics or Particle Physics has a long history which you can arguably trace back to the Greeks in 600 BC, where the idea of the atom (atomos – ‘uncuttable’) was first invented in thought experiments. Ever since, there…
