We say goodbye to Aimen and Ja Kobi, who worked with the PPC for the summer through the MIT Summer Research Program. Hailing from Howard University (Ja Kobi) and Smith College (Aimen), they spent the summer with us in Boston,…
I am spending a good amount of time this summer at the University of Bonn. Bonn, the former capital of West Germany, is now just another 330k inhabitants city but has retained a wonderful flair of a capital: Major museums,…
François Englert, Nobel laureate “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS…
Today, May 19, 2026, marks an important milestone in the LHC project. The proton-proton collisions for the Run 3 period, that started on July 5, 2022, have officially completed. Run 3 has been a major success not only for the…
The recent decision on the prestigious Barry Goldwater Scholarship, included three students from MIT, which is wonderful, but even better it includes Charlotte Myers, one of our recent excellent UROP students. Big congratulations! Not only did she participate in our…
Today, Monday 27 at 13:36 local time, I was sitting at my desk at Fermilab and the power went out. Just the emergency lights were on, and the wireless network still worked. I took it as an opportunity to take…
It is with great pleasure that we can announce that Nature has published our work on the measurement of the W boson mass with the CMS experiment even with a detailed commentary. It is a rare occurrence that CMS publishes…
In the last week and a half, a lot of computing activity took place for the PPC. We were heavily involved in the Computing Operations Workshop (March 12-13, 2026), the Computing and Offline Week (March 16-20, 2026), and, right in…
Last weekend, on Saturday March 7th, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN for the first time in 2026 reached the Stable Beams conditions during proton-proton collisions at 13.6 TeV energy. The beams are declared “stable” when all parts of the…
The end of the year 2025 marked the end of an era, which had already started the year before with the departure of Josh Bendavid (now a permanent CERN staff). Zhangqier Wang and Kenneth Long left the PPC and are…
