On August 14, 2024 at 10am the Kolker room was well populated by experimental and theoretical physicists mostly. Tianyu Yang’s thesis was on the agenda for today and it was a wonderful presentation which also served as his thesis defense.…
The most important particle physics conference this year, ICHEP 2024 in Prague, was coined the conference of ‘Disappearing Anomalies’ by one of my esteemed colleagues when I asked him on the last day what he found most remarkable about this…
Today I was invited to speak about the status of the FCC-ee case in terms of physics and detectors at the 2024 Users Meeting at Fermilab. The Annual Users Meeting is a Fermilab tradition—it was meeting number 57—where the status…
Summer at CERN is special with the PPC. We usually have a flock of undergraduate students going to CERN to perform research with our group. The students are mostly funded through the MISTI and the IROP (international UROP) programs and…
The CMS collaboration has just submitted the paper of diboson production, WW, at 13.6 TeV, which is from Run 3 data. No new physics discovered, and the standard model still holds. The original analysis was first presented end of March,…
From the recent Advisory Committee of CERN Users (ACCU) meeting at CERN the performance of the LHC during the ongoing year has been discussed and—I am impressed—the LHC turns out to be perfectly on schedule and if the run continued…
It is summer and of course we have a bunch of Summer students at CERN. Mariarosaria took care of the organization for the PPC and here you see them just after arrival trying out the CERN canteen for lunch. Welcome…
In PPC’s recent uninterrupted series of visiting students, Yusuf Seday has been another unique, productive, and pleasant visitor. Hailing from Turkey, he joined KIT (no spelling mistake) and our dear colleague Markus Klute sent him over for a 3 month…
The SM@LHC conference, held May 7-10, 2024 in Rome, dealt with the latest developments and future prospects in standard model phenomenology at the LHC, with emphasis on the most interesting and topical aspects at the interface between theory and experiment.…
It is an old tradition at MIT that departments, laboratories and centers (DLCs) are reviewed on a regular basis by an outside committee. The advantages of such a review are immediately obvious. External people help to break out of the…
