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…
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 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,…
Nowadays, physics research relies heavily on advanced computing resources to perform large-scale simulations, data processing, and complex analyses. As computing technologies evolve, physicists continuously adapt their workflows to take full advantage of the improvements. The Throughput Computing 2025 (HTC2025) conference,…
LHC must have been in a mood to test the limits. According to reports from our data acquisition team CMS recorded pileup collisions at an average of 135 per crossing which is about two times as much we have been…
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…
