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…
USCMS meetings are held yearly in the US rotating in some semi random way between the different US institutions that are involved in the CMS experiment. The most important factor is of course the willingness of the local group or…
About 450 people participated in this years FCC Week, where the full FCC project is reviewed in many sessions and even more presentations. The majority of them in parallel. The scene was set in the old St. Francis Hotel in…
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 Mitchell Conference is hosted every year at Texas A&M, with the stated goal of bringing together experimentalists working on different frontiers and pheno/theory folks to discuss recent developments on dark matter, standard model, and neutrino physics. This goal seems…
The lively conference boasted nearly 600 participants between graduate students, postdocs, and professors, which filled the hallways and classrooms (and dorms) of the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University now emptied of undergraduates who were off for summer break.…
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.…
