The CMS Week 2026 at CERN provided an opportunity for the collaboration to review the current status of the experiment, highlight recent scientific and technical achievements, and discuss preparations for the HL-LHC era. The opening plenary brought together reports from…
The 28th Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP 2026) was held May 25 – 29, 2026 at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. The CHEP conference series has historically addressed computing, networking, and software challenges for the experiments which…
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…
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…
In the last week and a half, a lot of computing activity took place for the PPC. We were heavily involved in the Computing Operations Workshop (March 12-13, 2026), the Computing and Offline Week (March 16-20, 2026), and, right in…
Last weekend, on Saturday March 7th, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN for the first time in 2026 reached the Stable Beams conditions during proton-proton collisions at 13.6 TeV energy. The beams are declared “stable” when all parts of the…
The High Luminosity (HL) version of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is at the top of the top priorities of the CERN management and of High Energy Physics all over the globe including the U.S. P5 recommendations and the European…
On November 4th at 22:10 the last 2025 proton-proton run of the LHC came to a close. As can be seen on the picture below, the LHC in the first third of the data taking fell a little behind the…
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…
As of October 22, 2025, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has delivered 500/fb (inverse femtobarns) of integrated luminosity to its major experiments, ATLAS and CMS. The total delivered luminosity is a measure of the total number of particle collisions generated…
