It is an old tradition at MIT that departments, laboratories and centers (DLCs) are reviewed on a regular basis by an outside committee. The advantages of such a review are immediately obvious. External people help to break out of the…
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…
This year in Moriond, the commonly used and often misleading name for the Winter Conferences in the French/Italian Alps, Guillelmo had his first cross section measurement of the WW process at 13.6 GeV, from Run 3 data shown. The picture…
At the end of March (18-22), CMS held a major internal workshop (Computing and Offline Week) dedicated to issues related to data processing, distribution, and analysis. This workshop occurs twice a year and brings together experts from various laboratories, computing…
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…
