The Open Symposium on the European Strategy for Particle Physics (ESPP) concluded on June 27, 2025, in Venice, serving as a critical community consultation for formulating Europe’s next major project in high-energy physics. “The time is ripe to forge a…
Two happy interns who will work on the public image of A2rchi and perform lots of A2rchi tests arrived at Fermilab, where they will spent the summer., The A2rchi web site right now looks rather basic …. Let’s see what…
LHC must have been in a mood to test the limits. According to reports from our data acquisition team CMS recorded pileup collisions at an average of 135 per crossing which is about two times as much we have been…
The June Council Session at CERN, characterized by intense discussions and updates from diverse areas of the scientific programme, just concluded. Among the notable outcomes was the approval of the Medium-Term Plan (MTP) for 2026–2030. This important document outlines CERN’s…
Read the report by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. It just came out and it is bold; it calls for the US to catapult itself back to the top of the energy frontier by building a Muon…
Summer CMS Week is always a big event: The summer has started and most people are able to get to CERN and participate in the event. I barely made it out of Boston; I had to decide last moment because…
Vienna, the Imperial and Royal (k.u.k.) capital was the place where this year’s FCC Week took place. With the submission of the feasibility study report earlier this year the excitement is noticeable and the number of participants has shot up…
The first high-energy collisions with stable beams in 2025! After the winter break, the LHC has resumed operations for Run 3, with first collisions at 13.6 TeV now occurring. Proton bunches will gradually increase to over 2400 per beam. A…
Organized in a co-production between Fermi- and Argonne Laboratory the Third Annual US FCC Workshop (now actually called Annual Higgs Factory FCC Workshop) was a smashing success. After our initial road trip to the First Annual US FCC Workshop at…
April 14, 2025 was the day when we had the first proton beams of 2025 through the LHC and leaving some recordable beam splashes! Oh, yeah … LHC and CMS are ready! A beam splash simply means that protons crash…
