Farewell to Jan
The man who talked CMS into turning the luminosity down Most postdocs leave behind a folder of plots. Jan Eysermans leaves behind a dataset. Jan joined the PPC on April 1, 2021 and has moved on August 1, 2026 to…
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
Visiting the University of Bonn, AI Agents Part 1
I am spending a good amount of time this summer at the University of Bonn. Bonn, the former capital of West Germany, is now just another 330k inhabitants city but has retained a wonderful flair of a capital: Major museums,…
So Long, LHC — and Thanks for All the Bosons
Geneva / Cambridge, MA — Summer 2026 The Particle Physics Collaboration celebrates a golden era of CMS physics, as the world’s greatest collider powers down for Long Shutdown 3 On 29 June 2026, at 6:00 in the morning, CERN switched…
François Englert dies at 93
François Englert, Nobel laureate “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS…
The European Strategy for Particle Physics is updated!
When prompted parley at MIT gave me this funny version of the official update the European Strategy for Particle Physics News. If you prefer the snappy version it came out pretty good. After more than two years of intense deliberation,…
LHC completes Run 3 Proton-Proton collisions
Today, May 19, 2026, marks an important milestone in the LHC project. The proton-proton collisions for the Run 3 period, that started on July 5, 2022, have officially completed. Run 3 has been a major success not only for the…
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…
Power situation in Warrenville/Batavia
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…
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…