Oppenheimer
On the warm Friday afternoon of August 4, 2023, our group went to a movie theater and saw Christopher Nolan’s new release, Oppenheimer. As good physicists, we had to pay tribute to a film about a man who led one…
Open Science Grid All-Hands Meeting 2023
After four years of zoom only meetings we finally had our yearly All-Hands Meeting in person in Madison Wisconsin. At MIT our Tier2 computing center design is shifting from a fairly low power density hardware to high density CPU worker…
LHC Magnet quench and IP8 compressor trips
The LHC is facing a serious issue because last night at around 1am (CERN time), an electrical perturbation (likely the cause) caused several magnet to quenched and the IP8 cold compressor to trip. The Inner Triplet L8 insulation vacuum was…
Friday afternoons with the PPC
Late Friday afternoons are rarely known for being very efficient at work but they can be used as a time for preparations for the weekend and for group fun. The PPC traditionally goes for a short round of drinks on…
Pheno 2023 Conference at Pittsburgh
Physicists communicate with each other so that sparkling thoughts could emerge during the exchange. The bonding of theorists and experimentalists is tight. Experimentalists need theory predictions and models to motivate the research, while theorists need experimental results to verify and…
Summer CMS Week – June 12-16, 2023
This year’s summer CMS week was very busy on several fronts: Run 2 analyses (believe it or not), Run 3 startup issues, and Phase-II upgrade developments. In the past months the collaboration became aware of several issues with the 2022…
Email privacy and impact on CERN email
The not so recent news article on CERN’s web page on email and privacy seems to be finally be followed up on by CERN’s computing division. It looks like that CERN will not anymore allow email to be forwarded or…
Congratulations, Pieter!
The Particle Physics Collaboration would like to extend its proudest congratulations to Pieter for completing his work in fulfillment of his Master’s Thesis on the SUEP search at CMS! MIT and the PPC have been lucky to host Pieter over…
Road Trip to the First Annual US FCC Meeting at BNL
The date was April 23rd, 2023. It was a gray and rainy Sunday, hardly the type of weather anyone would want to be outside in. But assembled outside of building 39 stood 7 unsuspecting students, perhaps looking a little dazed.…
Dark photon – a search for a GeV scale dimuon resonance
Today the CMS search for a dark photon at the GeV scale was made public. The search is performed using the 13 TeV pp collision data collected by the CMS detector during Run 2. On the same day, Professor David…