Proton-proton running closes for 2025
On November 4th at 22:10 the last 2025 proton-proton run of the LHC came to a close. As can be seen on the picture below, the LHC in the first third of the data taking fell a little behind the…
Joel Butler receives the Panofsky Prize
Joel Butler is a former CMS Spokesperson (2016-18), but for us much more importantly, he is a PhD out of our own PPC (PhD MIT, 1969-1975, Advisor: Lawrence Rosenson), and he has been awarded with the APS 2026 Panofsky Prize…
FTS/XRootD workshop in Barcelona
This year, the workshop was organized by PIC, and the venue took place on campus of Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. The university is located in a quite isolated place, ~50 mins by train from the center of Barcelona. There were…
First Fruit from Run 3 Parking Trigger: Search for the Rare Decay D0→μ+μ− Published
The CMS Collaboration has published its first paper based on Run 3 parking trigger in Physical Review Letters, reporting ‘A search for the rare decay D⁰→μ+μ−‘. The analysis is based on data collected during 2022–2023 at a center-of-mass energy of…
Congratulations to our new CMS spokes: Anadi Canepa
Her life as a physicist started officially with her Laurea (2000) in Padova, Italy from where she moved directly to Purdue for her PhD (2006). Anadi is a Senior Scientist at Fermilab and held various notable appointments at Fermilab, TRIUMF,…
Mature CEPC not in China’s newest five-year plan
In recent years, the CEPC project has successfully completed several major milestones, including the publication of multiple design reports and the completion of three rounds of in-depth reviews. These achievements mark the transition of the project from the design stage…
CERN’s LHC overachieves to the Physicists Delight!
As of October 22, 2025, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has delivered 500/fb (inverse femtobarns) of integrated luminosity to its major experiments, ATLAS and CMS. The total delivered luminosity is a measure of the total number of particle collisions generated…
Ciao Andrea, Ciao Ciao!
The PPC had the pleasure to host Andrea Siddartha Maria as a visiting Master’s student from ETH Zurich for the warm Boston months of April through October of this year. Andrea worked on the search for dark photons using CMS…
A coffee treat from Colombia
Last week one of our collaborators on the A2RCHI project came back from a visit to his home in Colombia with a special treat for the group. He brought us a package of exquisite coffee ‘Juan Valdez’ medium roast. Its…
In Memory of Konstanty (Sham) Sumorok, 1948-2025
We are deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of our dear colleague and friend Konstanty (Sham) Sumorok, who passed away peacefully in his sleep on October 3, 2025, at the age of 77. Born on February 19,…