Following the discovery of the Higgs boson with a mass of approximately 125 GeV by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider, extensive studies have confirmed its central role in the spontaneous breaking of electroweak symmetry in…
The first CMS week of 2025 took place during the first part of February, Monday 10th to Friday 14th. It was a rather busy week with a full agenda including a large number of plenary and parallel sessions. CMS is preparing the 2025…
In 2024, CMS collected around 50 PB of raw data and generated more than 75 PB of simulated data. Together with prompt processing, this amounts to more than 150 PB of new data. Using such an enormous amount of data…
If you have not yet noticed, Particle Physics is going through a very critical period. The energy frontier—also known as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)—has reached its midpoint after it started in 2009 and is expected to finish sometimes in…
Since I started my career in High Energy Physics I know about the ‘Chamonix Meeting’ where originally the LEP accelerator people got together with the LEP collaborations to plan the year ahead. The meetings seem to have started in 1991.…
Every January, I head from Geneva (CERN) to Boston for a couple of weeks to work with students on Future Circular Collider (FCC) Physics analysis projects at MIT. It’s something I look forward to every year, and this time was…
David is our new SubMIT project leader after Josh Bendavid’s departure on to his permanent CERN position and today he has passed the first very important challenge: he installed his first ever Linux server and his main helper was Pietro,…
It is the third year we are making January a very busy month for undergraduate students here at MIT and at other places to learn and contribute to the planned FCC project. What started in Fall 2022 as a vague…
The CMS Tier-2 was installed at Bates in 2009 as part of the High Performance Research Computing Facility (HPRCF), and look how far it got us. One of the cornerstones of the computing center is of course the chiller which…
In the world of particle physics, every discovery -or lack thereof- can make waves. Recently, the CMS collaboration has published the first diboson paper in the Physics Letters B journal using the LHC Run 3 data, specifically the production of…
