Abid Patwa, the DOE manager of the High Energy Physics office, informed the US Higgs Factory coordinators in an email about exciting news from Washington DC: “As an FYI — Today afternoon, April 26, 2024, a joint “Statement of Intent…
My recent visit to CERN would have been sufficiently motivated by the CMS week, but I was not sure whether I should go because it was in the middle of the semester and I do not like to leave the…
Peter Higgs, Nobel laureate and the person who inspired the Higgs boson’s name after he postulated it in a series of articles in 1964-66, has just died at the age of 94. May he rest in peace!
For three days, much of the U.S. and international community met in a rainy Cambridge to discuss the plans of the Future Circular Collider and the future of the field. This was the second U.S. annual FCC workshop, and the…
Visiting student from KIT, Yusuf Seday, impressed us and the crowd with his elaborate improvisations on the guitar and loop at the MIT Battle of the Bands event this weekend. His passion and deep ability for music were apparent to…
First splash events recorded in CMS on last Friday (March 8, 2024) made it more than obvious that the LHC team has brought back beams into the collider. Its BeamTime as they say at CERN and thus LHC finished the…
First proton beams are in the machine for this year, 2024. It is always an exciting moment, even if we have done this for many many years already. To get a machine with 1232 dipole magnets and even more focusing…
After the PAS was released in December, and in preparation for the real paper, a briefing describing the SUEP offline search has been made public on the CMS and is advertised by the CMSExperiment accounts on social media:
Recently I was browsing the various news offers at MIT and realized that as a person working at MIT I have access to a number of News subscriptions, I never knew about. Here is a page where you can see…
The first CMS week of 2024 took place during the second week of February, Monday 5th to Friday 9th. It was a rather busy week with a full agenda including a large number of plenary and parallel sessions. CMS is…
