Today, November 23, 2024, the LHC crew at CERN completed the running of the Large Hadron Collider for 2024, which was the tenth year and resulted in a record data accumulation. The beginning of 2024 went picture book perfect: when…
After the initial proton-proton reference run has been completed reasonably smoothly CMS is now really logging Heavy Ion collisions. As usual in those relatively short periods the CMS control room in Meyrin is full of the Heavy Ion folks. This…
As the PPC’s fate is inextricably intertwined with the future of CERN we are so glad to see that the new CERN director has been decided: “Today, the CERN Council selected British physicist Mark Thomson as the Organization’s next Director-General”.…
Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS) represent cutting-edge technology in high-resolution, low-material budget detectors, pivotal for particle physics applications. Our group is preparing to leverage this technology for vertex detection in a future FCC experiment. In parallel, our colleagues at MIT,…
I’ve been a postdoctoral researcher at MIT for three years, but I’ve spent almost all of that time in Geneva, Switzerland working with many other members of the PPC group in our bustling corridor of Building 32 on the CERN…
The LHC has just dumped its last proton-proton collision fill for 2024. Below is the final proton run picture where the news was announced. The year has seen a new record in data taken in a given amount of time…
The moving trucks have been a nuisance in the last few weeks. Cambridge and Somerville was blocked up all last week and even more so on the weekend. And so we are back at it … new and old challenges…
As summer comes to an end, last Friday we said goodbye to Joseph Sorel, an undergraduate summer student who joined us from Washington University in St. Louis. Joseph worked with the SUEP team on the WH channel, focusing his efforts…
CAVEAT: this post was embargoed for several weeks because it contains ‘the number’. Just before we could move to the DAQ section during the meeting Josh popped up this plots … glasses of champagne in his hands with Kenneth and…
When the summer turns really hot and it is late July in Geneva there is usually a notable slow down. August is coming and everybody knows this is the time when people take their vacation, they go to the seaside…
