Last proton-proton collision for 2024
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…
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
Scheduled: The CMS W boson mass seminar
Just earlier today the seminar for the W boson mass measurement from CMS has been publicized. The result is of course kept secret for now. I know a number of people who are feverishly awaiting to see what the first…
First day of class
The moving trucks have been a nuisance in the last few weeks. Cambridge and Somerville was blocked up all last week and even more so on the weekend. And so we are back at it … new and old challenges…
Unblinded….
CAVEAT: this post was embargoed for several weeks because it contains ‘the number’. Just before we could move to the DAQ section during the meeting Josh popped up this plots … glasses of champagne in his hands with Kenneth and…
Catching up in August?
When the summer turns really hot and it is late July in Geneva there is usually a notable slow down. August is coming and everybody knows this is the time when people take their vacation, they go to the seaside…
Congratulations Dr. Yang
On August 14, 2024 at 10am the Kolker room was well populated by experimental and theoretical physicists mostly. Tianyu Yang’s thesis was on the agenda for today and it was a wonderful presentation which also served as his thesis defense.…
Disappearing ‘Anomalies’ at ICHEP 2024
The most important particle physics conference this year, ICHEP 2024 in Prague, was coined the conference of ‘Disappearing Anomalies’ by one of my esteemed colleagues when I asked him on the last day what he found most remarkable about this…
The 2024 Users Meeting at FNAL
Today I was invited to speak about the status of the FCC-ee case in terms of physics and detectors at the 2024 Users Meeting at Fermilab. The Annual Users Meeting is a Fermilab tradition—it was meeting number 57—where the status…
CERN UROPs in the Summer of 2024
Summer at CERN is special with the PPC. We usually have a flock of undergraduate students going to CERN to perform research with our group. The students are mostly funded through the MISTI and the IROP (international UROP) programs and…
2024 USCMS Meeting in Princeton
USCMS meetings are held yearly in the US rotating in some semi random way between the different US institutions that are involved in the CMS experiment. The most important factor is of course the willingness of the local group or…