CMS Week – April 15-19, 2024 at CERN and SM Emergency
My recent visit to CERN would have been sufficiently motivated by the CMS week, but I was not sure whether I should go because it was in the middle of the semester and I do not like to leave the…
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Spring 2024 Offline and Computing Week
At the end of March (18-22), CMS held a major internal workshop (Computing and Offline Week) dedicated to issues related to data processing, distribution, and analysis. This workshop occurs twice a year and brings together experts from various laboratories, computing…
CMS records first beamsplashes in 2024
First splash events recorded in CMS on last Friday (March 8, 2024) made it more than obvious that the LHC team has brought back beams into the collider. Its BeamTime as they say at CERN and thus LHC finished the…
Beamtime at the LHC
First proton beams are in the machine for this year, 2024. It is always an exciting moment, even if we have done this for many many years already. To get a machine with 1232 dipole magnets and even more focusing…
Updated LHC Schedule, up to 2041
The CERN director, Fabiola Gianotti, goes through her usual New Years address and presents accomplishments of the last year and the plans for the coming year(s). An amazing talk as every year because there is a lot going on at…
Impressions from the ICFA Seminar at DESY
The community of High Energy Physicists comes together usually every three years in form of the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) and goes through a seminar on “Future Perspectives in High Energy Physics”. This year was special for a…
MIT’s Dean of Science visits CMS
November 1, 2023 was the day that our own Nergis Mavalvala, our Dean came to CERN for the first time. Bolek the director of the Laboratory for Nuclear Science had invited her and she accepted, curious as we learned during…
YETS started
The Year End Technical Stop or for the LHC experts YETS is in effect as of today (October 30, 2023). The year has finished with an exciting Heavy Ion run which started slow but eventually picked up the pace and…
Sailing on Lac Leman
A visit to CERN is not complete without sailing on Lac Leman! We took advantage of Sunday 13th August,Tim, Bella, Ru, Casey’s last weekend at CERN. To get into the mood, a few days earlier Tim and Maria watched a…
LHC Magnet quench and IP8 compressor trips
The LHC is facing a serious issue because last night at around 1am (CERN time), an electrical perturbation (likely the cause) caused several magnet to quenched and the IP8 cold compressor to trip. The Inner Triplet L8 insulation vacuum was…