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…
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…
Today, Monday 27 at 13:36 local time, I was sitting at my desk at Fermilab and the power went out. Just the emergency lights were on, and the wireless network still worked. I took it as an opportunity to take…
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…
It is with great pleasure that we can announce that Nature has published our work on the measurement of the W boson mass with the CMS experiment even with a detailed commentary. It is a rare occurrence that CMS publishes…
The end of the year 2025 marked the end of an era, which had already started the year before with the departure of Josh Bendavid (now a permanent CERN staff). Zhangqier Wang and Kenneth Long left the PPC and are…
The High Luminosity (HL) version of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is at the top of the top priorities of the CERN management and of High Energy Physics all over the globe including the U.S. P5 recommendations and the European…
The Data Analysis School for members of the CMS experiment ‘CMSDAS’ is held yearly and this year, 2026, was no exception. The school was held at Fermilab’s LHC Physics Center and provided intensive hands-on training for new researchers on CMS…
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…
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…
