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

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…

Proud to see our former UROPs succeed

The recent decision on Rhodes Scholars, one of the most prestigious scholarships around, included four students from MIT, which is wonderful, but even better it includes Sofia Lara, one of the inaugural generation of FCC-ee students participating in our undergraduate…

Joel Butler receives the Panofsky Prize

Joel Butler is a former CMS Spokesperson (2016-18), but for us much more importantly, he is a PhD out of our own PPC (PhD MIT, 1969-1975, Advisor: Lawrence Rosenson), and he has been awarded with the APS 2026 Panofsky Prize…