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…
Since I started my career in High Energy Physics I know about the ‘Chamonix Meeting’ where originally the LEP accelerator people got together with the LEP collaborations to plan the year ahead. The meetings seem to have started in 1991.…
David is our new SubMIT project leader after Josh Bendavid’s departure on to his permanent CERN position and today he has passed the first very important challenge: he installed his first ever Linux server and his main helper was Pietro,…
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…
Today, November 23, 2024, the LHC crew at CERN completed the running of the Large Hadron Collider for 2024, which was the tenth year and resulted in a record data accumulation. The beginning of 2024 went picture book perfect: when…
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…
After the initial proton-proton reference run has been completed reasonably smoothly CMS is now really logging Heavy Ion collisions. As usual in those relatively short periods the CMS control room in Meyrin is full of the Heavy Ion folks. This…
As the PPC’s fate is inextricably intertwined with the future of CERN we are so glad to see that the new CERN director has been decided: “Today, the CERN Council selected British physicist Mark Thomson as the Organization’s next Director-General”.…
The LHC has just dumped its last proton-proton collision fill for 2024. Below is the final proton run picture where the news was announced. The year has seen a new record in data taken in a given amount of time…
