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…
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.…
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…
I was invited to the 2013 Shanghai Particle Physics and Cosmology Symposium (SPCS2013) in Shanghai, China to report on the Higgs highlights from CMS. Bill Murray, also a former Higgs convener reported on the highlights from ATLAS. A good old…
