Inching towards a round number… (Benedikt, remember I promised to show you!). Saving the planet one eliminated bottle at a time. It is getting dangerously close. We cannot leave the fountain alone anymore ;-). Preparing for the big moment! The…
The recent decision on the prestigious Barry Goldwater Scholarship, included three students from MIT, which is wonderful, but even better it includes Charlotte Myers, one of our recent excellent UROP students. Big congratulations! Not only did she participate in our…
Today, Monday 27 at 13:36 local time, I was sitting at my desk at Fermilab and the power went out. Just the emergency lights were on, and the wireless network still worked. I took it as an opportunity to take…
Last night colleagues at Fermilab invited me to a Bengali New Year celebration. If you don’t know–I cetainly did not– India’s state West Bengal (April 15) and Bangladesh (April 14) base their time on a solar system initiated during Mughal…
It is with great pleasure that we can announce that Nature has published our work on the measurement of the W boson mass with the CMS experiment even with a detailed commentary. It is a rare occurrence that CMS publishes…
Two Undergrads, One Conference, and 5,280 Feet of Physics The beautiful state of Colorado, home to mountains, skiing, South Park, and plenty of scientific energy, set the stage for this year’s APS Global Physics Summit in Denver. Our group was…
In the last week and a half, a lot of computing activity took place for the PPC. We were heavily involved in the Computing Operations Workshop (March 12-13, 2026), the Computing and Offline Week (March 16-20, 2026), and, right in…
The University of Pisa recently hosted the electroweak (EWK) physics community for a highly engaging week of presentations, discussions, hackathon sessions, and of course a little fun as well. Much of the PPC cohort was present, a nice excuse to…
Last weekend, on Saturday March 7th, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN for the first time in 2026 reached the Stable Beams conditions during proton-proton collisions at 13.6 TeV energy. The beams are declared “stable” when all parts of the…
The end of the year 2025 marked the end of an era, which had already started the year before with the departure of Josh Bendavid (now a permanent CERN staff). Zhangqier Wang and Kenneth Long left the PPC and are…
