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 not so recent news article on CERN’s web page on email and privacy seems to be finally be followed up on by CERN’s computing division. It looks like that CERN will not anymore allow email to be forwarded or…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
