The value of the W boson mass has recently received a lot of attention because CDF—the PPC is also a part of CDF—has published a very precise measurement which does not agree with what the standard model predicts. While it…
Some people seem to be puzzled by the update of the R(K) and R(K*) measurements presented today by the LHCb collaboration. Renato Quagliani made a great presentation explaining it all, but in case you missed it, I asked ChatGPT for…
The energy frontier conveners Meenakshi Narain, Laura Reina, Alessandro Tricoli have just announced the release of the final version of the Snowmass Energy Frontier Report. This is a report that makes recommendation for the future well into the next decade…
CMS has been around for a long time – It is now thirty round years and was worth a major celebration at CERN. The longest member of the CMS collaboration active at MIT right now is there since 28 years.…
The large hadron collider (LHC) has completed its data taking on November 28, 2022 about two weeks earlier than originally planned earlier. Rising energy costs mostly due to the conflict in Ukraine has forced CERN to make adjustments. According to…
After the usual one month heavy ion run of the LHC was canceled due to energy cost issues and the not that smooth startup of the LHC at least there was one day reserved to set up heavy ions and…
Today Miao defended her thesis successfully. She talked for about 50 minutes about here massive thesis (~330 pages) and easily sailed through what she referred to as the grilling session. Iain (zoom) and Christoph Paus were on the committee apart…
In our recent analysis of rare decays for B mesons to dimuons we show that CMS can even with worse momentum resolution compete with the LHCb collaboration in the rare B decay arena. What we are missing in track momentum…
It is becoming clear now, after Dylan and Sid have already handed in, the era of the fabulous four is coming to an end soon. MonoPhoton here you go. On to save the planet at EAPS with our friend Chris…
Siddharth thesis was a tour de force designing a new Deep Neural Network based top tagger for CMS which used jet substructure and the at the time brand new energy correlation functions. Than it was used in the first Mono-top…
