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…
This years conference of the European Physics Society (EPS) on High Energy Physics (HEP) took place in Hamburg. It was a wonderful showing of the present state of high energy physics. I personally had not visited the EPS in a…
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…
Late Friday afternoons are rarely known for being very efficient at work but they can be used as a time for preparations for the weekend and for group fun. The PPC traditionally goes for a short round of drinks on…
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…
The date was April 23rd, 2023. It was a gray and rainy Sunday, hardly the type of weather anyone would want to be outside in. But assembled outside of building 39 stood 7 unsuspecting students, perhaps looking a little dazed.…
High Energy Physics or Particle Physics has a long history which you can arguably trace back to the Greeks in 600 BC, where the idea of the atom (atomos – ‘uncuttable’) was first invented in thought experiments. Ever since, there…
