Fermilab LPC researchers find unexpected events with CMS May 3, 2022 …gluons are knocked out of a collision between two protons. The recent result is hard to reconcile with accepted theory and suggests that undiscovered phenomena could exist. CMS event in…
Nicola Bacchetta returns to Fermilab to lead SiDet March 29, 2022 …recently, he served as CMS tracker technical coordinator, supervising the operations of the CMS silicon strip tracker and Pixel detector. “We feel very lucky to have Nicola join us,” said…
In Memoriam: Thomas Ferbel March 15, 2022 …was a faculty member at the University of Rochester. He then served a stint at the DOE, overseeing LHC experiments. Since 2006, Tom has engaged in the CMS experiment at…
Fermilab’s Patty McBride elected next CMS spokesperson March 3, 2022 …laboratory CERN. CMS is a five-story-tall particle detector at the LHC, located just outside Geneva, Switzerland, and 300 feet underground. The international CMS collaboration comprises 3,000 scientists from more than…
CMS LHC Physics Center hosts a successful virtual data analysis school February 22, 2022 …graduate students and postdocs, participated as students, while the other half lectured and facilitated exercises. The facilitators comprised LPC distinguished researchers, former CMS DAS students and other CMS scientists, who…
Patricia McBride elected next CMS spokesperson From CERN Courier, Feb. 11, 2022: Patricia McBride, Fermilab distinguished scientist, has been elected as the next spokesperson of the CMS collaboration. She will begin her new role in the…
Leonard "Lenny" Spiegel will retire Jan. 4, 2022 December 21, 2021 …Most of his work these days is on the upgrade of the CMS Outer Tracker for the High Luminosity phase of the LHC program. About 16 years ago, Spiegel led…
Ten ways Fermilab advanced science and technology in 2021 December 16, 2021 …neutrino mass ordering); the search for stealthy supersymmetry with the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider; dozens of papers on the Dark Energy Survey, including the most precise measurements…
Bill Freeman to retire Dec. 22 December 16, 2021 …ES&H and into project controls. After his time at DZero, Freeman worked in project controls for several other projects at the Lab, including: BTeV, Nova, and the CMS Phase 1…
From Joe Lykken: Kevin Burkett to lead Particle Physics Division November 18, 2021 …in a number of leadership positions, including CMS Center Deputy Head, CMS Department Head and most recently Deputy PPD Head. Kevin brings good judgement to this position, along with an…