Farewell to Kenneth and Qier
The end of the year 2025 marked the end of an era, which had already started the year before with the departure of Josh Bendavid (now a permanent CERN staff). Zhangqier Wang and Kenneth Long left the PPC and are…
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Archi Hackathon at the LPC@FNAL
The recent Large Language Model Hackathon at the LHC Physics Center (LPC) at Fermilab brought together physicists and computer scientists from across the CMS experiment to hack away at building agents for use in the Collaboration. Ideas are abundant as…
CMSDAS – Highlight at the beginning of the year
The Data Analysis School for members of the CMS experiment ‘CMSDAS’ is held yearly and this year, 2026, was no exception. The school was held at Fermilab’s LHC Physics Center and provided intensive hands-on training for new researchers on CMS…
Cloudy with a chance of New Physics
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…
Happy New Year from CMS
As usual, when the year comes to an end–bye bye 2025–we remember the good things from the year that just past, and hope for an even better New Year! CMS Sends out a greetings card to all groups to celebrate…
Is the flavor anomaly of R(D)/R(D*) disappearing?
The Violation of Fundamental Symmetries with B Mesons (VFSB) workshop was held at Fermilab from December 15–19, 2025, and has successfully concluded. The workshop brought together the flavor physics community to share recent experimental and theoretical progress and to discuss…
Proton-proton running closes for 2025
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…
Joel Butler receives the Panofsky Prize
Joel Butler is a former CMS Spokesperson (2016-18), but for us much more importantly, he is a PhD out of our own PPC (PhD MIT, 1969-1975, Advisor: Lawrence Rosenson), and he has been awarded with the APS 2026 Panofsky Prize…
First Fruit from Run 3 Parking Trigger: Search for the Rare Decay D0→μ+μ− Published
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…
Congratulations to our new CMS spokes: Anadi Canepa
Her life as a physicist started officially with her Laurea (2000) in Padova, Italy from where she moved directly to Purdue for her PhD (2006). Anadi is a Senior Scientist at Fermilab and held various notable appointments at Fermilab, TRIUMF,…