Some people seem to be puzzled by the update of the R(K) and R(K*) measurements presented today by the LHCb collaboration. Renato Quagliani made a great presentation explaining it all, but in case you missed it, I asked ChatGPT for…
The energy frontier conveners Meenakshi Narain, Laura Reina, Alessandro Tricoli have just announced the release of the final version of the Snowmass Energy Frontier Report. This is a report that makes recommendation for the future well into the next decade…
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…
