On January 25 in 1983 physicists announced the discovery of the W boson at CERN. This was the culmination of work proposed in 1976 by Carlo Rubbia, David Cline, and Peter McIntyre to convert CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) a…
High Energy Physics or Particle Physics has a long history which you can arguably trace back to the Greeks in 600 BC, where the idea of the atom (atomos – ‘uncuttable’) was first invented in thought experiments. Ever since, there…
The open session of the W Boson Mass Hackathon brought together a set of experimentalists and theorists discussing the present and future of the W boson mass measurement with all its intricate implications on the experimental and theoretical sides. The…
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…
