The heavy ion data taking nominally started on November 4 with some proton-proton reference runs and by now, November 14, has reached about half point. While we have seen a good start, neither the provided luminosity nor the refilling of…
An interesting crowd has gathered to a strategic, invitation-only meeting at SUNY, Stony Brook on Long Island. We are discussing the planning for the future. This is interesting and also not interesting, because the options are well known and nothing…
After the initial proton-proton reference run has been completed reasonably smoothly CMS is now really logging Heavy Ion collisions. As usual in those relatively short periods the CMS control room in Meyrin is full of the Heavy Ion folks. This…
As the PPC’s fate is inextricably intertwined with the future of CERN we are so glad to see that the new CERN director has been decided: “Today, the CERN Council selected British physicist Mark Thomson as the Organization’s next Director-General”.…
Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS) represent cutting-edge technology in high-resolution, low-material budget detectors, pivotal for particle physics applications. Our group is preparing to leverage this technology for vertex detection in a future FCC experiment. In parallel, our colleagues at MIT,…
I’ve been a postdoctoral researcher at MIT for three years, but I’ve spent almost all of that time in Geneva, Switzerland working with many other members of the PPC group in our bustling corridor of Building 32 on the CERN…
The LHC has just dumped its last proton-proton collision fill for 2024. Below is the final proton run picture where the news was announced. The year has seen a new record in data taken in a given amount of time…
CMS has a rich heavy-ion physics program covering measurement of jet quenching, quarkonium suppression, heavy flavor, flow correlations, and forward physics. Many of the physics goals involve rare probes of the quark-gluon plasma that rely on large data samples. The…
Just earlier today the seminar for the W boson mass measurement from CMS has been publicized. The result is of course kept secret for now. I know a number of people who are feverishly awaiting to see what the first…
The SubMIT project team has recently undertaken a significant project by migrating from a Gluster-based to a Ceph-based file system. This move marks a critical step in ensuring that the SubMIt system can handle the increasing demands of research and…
