The value of the W boson mass has recently received a lot of attention because CDF—the PPC is also a part of CDF—has published a very precise measurement which does not agree with what the standard model predicts. While it…
CMS has been around for a long time – It is now thirty round years and was worth a major celebration at CERN. The longest member of the CMS collaboration active at MIT right now is there since 28 years.…
The large hadron collider (LHC) has completed its data taking on November 28, 2022 about two weeks earlier than originally planned earlier. Rising energy costs mostly due to the conflict in Ukraine has forced CERN to make adjustments. According to…
After the usual one month heavy ion run of the LHC was canceled due to energy cost issues and the not that smooth startup of the LHC at least there was one day reserved to set up heavy ions and…
Today Miao defended her thesis successfully. She talked for about 50 minutes about here massive thesis (~330 pages) and easily sailed through what she referred to as the grilling session. Iain (zoom) and Christoph Paus were on the committee apart…
In our recent analysis of rare decays for B mesons to dimuons we show that CMS can even with worse momentum resolution compete with the LHCb collaboration in the rare B decay arena. What we are missing in track momentum…
How we turned “nothing” into one of the tightest limits on dark matter A PPC spotlight on Phys. Rev. D 105, 092007 (2022) — CMS, “Search for invisible decays of the Higgs boson produced via vector boson fusion in proton–proton…
Turning the monojet’s most stubborn background into the widest net in the dark-matter hunt A PPC spotlight on JHEP 11, 153 (2021) — CMS, “Search for new particles in events with energetic jets and large missing transverse momentum in proton-proton…
Turning the monojet most stubborn background into a precision measurement A PPC spotlight on JHEP 05, 205 (2021) — CMS, “Measurement of the Z boson differential production cross section using its invisible decay mode (Z → νν̄) in proton-proton collisions…
How a “boring” W⁺W⁻ cross section measurement quietly became one of the sharpest tests of the standard model, and then, almost as an afterthought, set the tightest limits on dimension-6 operators from this final state A PPC spotlight on the…
