This summer, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) embarked on an exciting new chapter—colliding light ions (oxygen and neon) for the very first time, a topic that interestingly enough Heavy Ion physicist are very interested in. From June 29 to July 9, 2025,…
The June Council Session at CERN, characterized by intense discussions and updates from diverse areas of the scientific programme, just concluded. Among the notable outcomes was the approval of the Medium-Term Plan (MTP) for 2026–2030. This important document outlines CERN’s…
Summer CMS Week is always a big event: The summer has started and most people are able to get to CERN and participate in the event. I barely made it out of Boston; I had to decide last moment because…
The first high-energy collisions with stable beams in 2025! After the winter break, the LHC has resumed operations for Run 3, with first collisions at 13.6 TeV now occurring. Proton bunches will gradually increase to over 2400 per beam. A…
April 14, 2025 was the day when we had the first proton beams of 2025 through the LHC and leaving some recordable beam splashes! Oh, yeah … LHC and CMS are ready! A beam splash simply means that protons crash…
A muon, the heavier counterpart of the electron, serves as one of the clearest signatures of various unique and interesting processes at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Due to its small interaction cross-section with ordinary matter, a muon can pass…
… goes to the LHC experimental collaborations among which of course CMS. The website announces The 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics is awarded co-authors of publications based on CERN’s Large Hadron Collider Run-2 data released between 2015 and July…
The first CMS week of 2025 took place during the first part of February, Monday 10th to Friday 14th. It was a rather busy week with a full agenda including a large number of plenary and parallel sessions. CMS is preparing the 2025…
Since I started my career in High Energy Physics I know about the ‘Chamonix Meeting’ where originally the LEP accelerator people got together with the LEP collaborations to plan the year ahead. The meetings seem to have started in 1991.…
Today, November 23, 2024, the LHC crew at CERN completed the running of the Large Hadron Collider for 2024, which was the tenth year and resulted in a record data accumulation. The beginning of 2024 went picture book perfect: when…
