Joel Butler is a former CMS Spokesperson (2016-18), but for us much more importantly, he is a PhD out of our own PPC (PhD MIT, 1969-1975, Advisor: Lawrence Rosenson), and he has been awarded with the APS 2026 Panofsky Prize…
The CMS Collaboration has published its first paper based on Run 3 parking trigger in Physical Review Letters, reporting ‘A search for the rare decay D⁰→μ+μ−‘. The analysis is based on data collected during 2022–2023 at a center-of-mass energy of…
Her life as a physicist started officially with her Laurea (2000) in Padova, Italy from where she moved directly to Purdue for her PhD (2006). Anadi is a Senior Scientist at Fermilab and held various notable appointments at Fermilab, TRIUMF,…
In recent years, the CEPC project has successfully completed several major milestones, including the publication of multiple design reports and the completion of three rounds of in-depth reviews. These achievements mark the transition of the project from the design stage…
As of October 22, 2025, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has delivered 500/fb (inverse femtobarns) of integrated luminosity to its major experiments, ATLAS and CMS. The total delivered luminosity is a measure of the total number of particle collisions generated…
The PPC had the pleasure to host Andrea Siddartha Maria as a visiting Master’s student from ETH Zurich for the warm Boston months of April through October of this year. Andrea worked on the search for dark photons using CMS…
Last week one of our collaborators on the A2RCHI project came back from a visit to his home in Colombia with a special treat for the group. He brought us a package of exquisite coffee ‘Juan Valdez’ medium roast. Its…
We are deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of our dear colleague and friend Konstanty (Sham) Sumorok, who passed away peacefully in his sleep on October 3, 2025, at the age of 77. Born on February 19,…
Arriving the evening before the conference, I wandered through the University of Wisconsin campus and was amused to find “Der Rathskeller” at the Memorial Union, a German-style beer hall right on the lakefront. As someone who grew up in Germany,…
After the Venice Symposium on the European Strategy for Particle Physics the European Commission under Ursula von der Leyen seems to be taking a page out of Daft Punks ‘Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger’ playbook for its proposed its budget on…
