Sheldon Stone, distinguished professor of physics at Syracuse University, who had strong connections to Fermilab, passed away in early October at the age of 75.
Patricia McBride
Scientists from the CMS and ATLAS experiments presented their first results from analysis of the proton-proton collision data collected in 2015. Fermilab and university scientists, working together at the LHC Physics Center, have played leading roles in some of the new results from CMS.
Patricia McBride Patricia McBride, head of the Particle Physics Division, wrote this column. The Particle Physics Division has undergone a number of changes over the past few months. Last fall, scientists working on neutrino experiments and technical staff working on the neutrino program and projects moved to start the new Neutrino Division, which started up in October. Around the same time, I joined PPD as division head, and Eric James became associate division head for engineering and support. During the…
Patricia McBride Patricia McBride, head of the CMS Center, wrote this column. The LHC is in the middle of a long shutdown period, and the CMS collaboration is busy preparing for the next run, which starts in 2015, while planning for detector upgrades during future long shutdowns. This week CMS scientists gathered at CERN to discuss plans and proposals for an upgrade to the CMS tracker for the high-luminosity LHC era. Fermilab Director Nigel Lockyer plans to visit the CMS…
Patricia McBride Patricia McBride, head of the CMS Center, wrote this column. The CMS Center at Fermilab hosts the LHC Physics Center (LPC) in partnership with the U.S. CMS Operations Program. The LPC is led by Meenakshi Narain of Brown University and Rick Cavanaugh of Fermilab and UIC and Boaz Klima from Fermilab. Professor Narain replaced Purdue University’s Ian Shipsey when he stepped down to become the chair of the CMS Collaboration Board. The Fermilab LPC is a regional center…
Patricia McBride Patricia McBride, head of the CMS Center, wrote this column. The LHC and its experiments at CERN will be entering a long shutdown from mid-February to early 2015. The work on the accelerator complex scheduled for the shutdown will enable the LHC to reach its design energy of 14 TeV. The shutdown will be a busy time for CMS scientists around the world, including the Fermilab CMS group. The collaboration will continue its analysis of the data collected…
Patricia McBride Patricia McBride, head of the CMS Center, wrote this column. The CMS detector will complete its nine-month run at a collision energy of 8 TeV soon, and the members of the CMS collaboration are already preparing for future runs at higher energies. Starting in the spring, there will be a long shutdown of the LHC for upgrades to its accelerator components. At the same time, we will make some improvements to the CMS detector. In late 2014, the…
Patricia McBride, head of the CMS Center, wrote this column. Patricia McBride The last few weeks have been an exciting time for particle physics. The CMS community around the world shared in the historic July 4 announcement of the discovery of a new particle. The observation of this Higgs-like resonance had long been anticipated, perhaps even expected by some. Still, the announcement, part of the opening session of the International Conference on High Energy Physics in Melbourne, Australia, was received…
Patricia McBride Patricia McBride, head of the CMS Center, wrote this column. The CMS Center and the LHC Physics Center are buzzing with activity these days. CMS collaborators at Fermilab and institutions around the globe have been working around the clock to produce physics results from the 2011 LHC data. Many new results were presented at the recent physics conferences in Moriond, La Thuile and at the APS April meeting in Atlanta. The updated results on the search for the…