Christoph Paus

Christoph Paus

Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Claim to fame: Co-lead the CMS Experiment team in its discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012. Keywords: Dark matter, Higgs boson properties, physics beyond the standard model, precision measurements Current Research Interest

Silly: 70 000

Inching towards a round number… (Benedikt, remember I promised to show you!). Saving the planet one eliminated bottle at a time. It is getting dangerously close. We cannot leave the fountain alone anymore ;-). Preparing for the big moment! The…

Our UROPs are making their marks

The recent decision on the prestigious Barry Goldwater Scholarship, included three students from MIT, which is wonderful, but even better it includes Charlotte Myers, one of our recent excellent UROP students. Big congratulations! Not only did she participate in our…

Bengali New Year – Welcome 1433

Last night colleagues at Fermilab invited me to a Bengali New Year celebration. If you don’t know–I cetainly did not– India’s state West Bengal (April 15) and Bangladesh (April 14) base their time on a solar system initiated during Mughal…

Cloudy with a chance of New Physics

We are still on the great cosmic scavenger hunt for dark matter, and the CMS experiment at CERN has been trying some delightfully weird detective work. Rather than only hunting for a single shiny new particle, we’re now also looking…

Happy New Year from CMS

As usual, when the year comes to an end–bye bye 2025–we remember the good things from the year that just past, and hope for an even better New Year! CMS Sends out a greetings card to all groups to celebrate…