We say goodbye to Aimen and Ja Kobi, who worked with the PPC for the summer through the MIT Summer Research Program. Hailing from Howard University (Ja Kobi) and Smith College (Aimen), they spent the summer with us in Boston,…
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,…
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 University of Pisa recently hosted the electroweak (EWK) physics community for a highly engaging week of presentations, discussions, hackathon sessions, and of course a little fun as well. Much of the PPC cohort was present, a nice excuse to…
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…
The CMS Collaboration has published its first paper based on Run 3 parking trigger in Physical Review Letters, reporting ‘A search for the rare decay D⁰→μ+μ−‘. The analysis is based on data collected during 2022–2023 at a center-of-mass energy of…
The PPC had the pleasure to host Andrea Siddartha Maria as a visiting Master’s student from ETH Zurich for the warm Boston months of April through October of this year. Andrea worked on the search for dark photons using CMS…
During the week of 22-26 September, the CMS Standard Model (SMP) gathered for a dedicated workshop to review recent results, ongoing analyses with Run-3 data, and the future directions of SM precision measurements. As MIT’s PPC plays a central role…
Returning to Hamburg, the city where I did my PhD from 2019–2022 at DESY, felt like visiting an old friend. To my surprise, the weather was sunny, despite Hamburg’s usual reputation for rain, the workshop even included an umbrella in…
This year, Anaheim, CA, was home of the famous APS April Meeting, this time held in conjunction with with the APS March Meeting (for better or for worse…). PPC presence was strong: undergraduate Nate Martinez presented his work studying and…
