Collaboration and communication between theorists and experimentalists is a critical part of the LHC physics program. It is in this context that I was invited to the NNPDF collaboration meeting in September order to provide an experimentalist perspective through an…
The clearest sign of the summer coming to an end is when September rolls in and the school year starts again. Eventually fall officially starts, this year it was on September 23. The Fall CMS week therefore was technically not…
The Particle Physics Collaboration (PPC) would like to extend its proudest congratulations to Sevio for completing his work with the MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP)! Sevio’s work at the PPC focused on starting a brand new search at CMS for…
After four years of zoom only meetings we finally had our yearly All-Hands Meeting in person in Madison Wisconsin. At MIT our Tier2 computing center design is shifting from a fairly low power density hardware to high density CPU worker…
Physicists communicate with each other so that sparkling thoughts could emerge during the exchange. The bonding of theorists and experimentalists is tight. Experimentalists need theory predictions and models to motivate the research, while theorists need experimental results to verify and…
This year’s summer CMS week was very busy on several fronts: Run 2 analyses (believe it or not), Run 3 startup issues, and Phase-II upgrade developments. In the past months the collaboration became aware of several issues with the 2022…
The Particle Physics Collaboration would like to extend its proudest congratulations to Pieter for completing his work in fulfillment of his Master’s Thesis on the SUEP search at CMS! MIT and the PPC have been lucky to host Pieter over…
Today the CMS search for a dark photon at the GeV scale was made public. The search is performed using the 13 TeV pp collision data collected by the CMS detector during Run 2. On the same day, Professor David…
On January 25 in 1983 physicists announced the discovery of the W boson at CERN. This was the culmination of work proposed in 1976 by Carlo Rubbia, David Cline, and Peter McIntyre to convert CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) a…
The open session of the W Boson Mass Hackathon brought together a set of experimentalists and theorists discussing the present and future of the W boson mass measurement with all its intricate implications on the experimental and theoretical sides. The…
