CMS data archival at MIT
In 2024, CMS collected around 50 PB of raw data and generated more than 75 PB of simulated data. Together with prompt processing, this amounts to more than 150 PB of new data. Using such an enormous amount of data…
Detailed Schedule for the European Strategy
If you have not yet noticed, Particle Physics is going through a very critical period. The energy frontier—also known as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)—has reached its midpoint after it started in 2009 and is expected to finish sometimes in…
News from the Chamonix meeting
Since I started my career in High Energy Physics I know about the ‘Chamonix Meeting’ where originally the LEP accelerator people got together with the LEP collaborations to plan the year ahead. The meetings seem to have started in 1991.…
From CERN to MIT for the FCC Workshop
Every January, I head from Geneva (CERN) to Boston for a couple of weeks to work with students on Future Circular Collider (FCC) Physics analysis projects at MIT. It’s something I look forward to every year, and this time was…
First Linux server installation for David and Pietro
David is our new SubMIT project leader after Josh Bendavid’s departure on to his permanent CERN position and today he has passed the first very important challenge: he installed his first ever Linux server and his main helper was Pietro,…
Student FCC Workshop at MIT – v3 2025
It is the third year we are making January a very busy month for undergraduate students here at MIT and at other places to learn and contribute to the planned FCC project. What started in Fall 2022 as a vague…
New Chill in Middleton
The CMS Tier-2 was installed at Bates in 2009 as part of the High Performance Research Computing Facility (HPRCF), and look how far it got us. One of the cornerstones of the computing center is of course the chiller which…
Published first diboson paper using Run 3 LHC data
In the world of particle physics, every discovery -or lack thereof- can make waves. Recently, the CMS collaboration has published the first diboson paper in the Physics Letters B journal using the LHC Run 3 data, specifically the production of…
¡Felicidades, Cecilia!
Visiting MIT for the fall semester, Cecilia concluded her experience here on the week of Thanksgiving. She will return to her home institution of CIEMAT to begin work on her thesis after 3 months of great physics and memorable experiences.…
LHC finishes a Record Year
Today, November 23, 2024, the LHC crew at CERN completed the running of the Large Hadron Collider for 2024, which was the tenth year and resulted in a record data accumulation. The beginning of 2024 went picture book perfect: when…