The next winner of the second (senior) Quantum Universe Beate Naroska prize is
Prof Dr Mariana Graña, one of the giants of string theory (Graña is into Generalised Complex Manifolds) and also co-founder of the GenHET framework by the way!

Congrats Prof Graña! mariana graña

I’m at the Quantum Universe Beate Naroska awards today, and the first winner Dr Jennifer Schober already said it nicely (Schober is an astrophysicist):

a diverse universe is best investigated in a diverse team of scientists.

Nice talk, Jennifer 🤩🥳! (@Schober_Jen_ I think)

Interpreting the LHC collisions is extremely data-intensive, and #CMSPaper 1282 describes how modern software techniques so our software (and #machinelearning ) can run on many different platforms/processors and still efficiently analyse our collisions buff.ly/3vONo7X

#CMSPaper 1281 looks whether there are neutral particles produced in LHC collisions that traverse most of CMS and then decay in the muon system. As you can see in the plot, there are no extra collisions consistent with that long-lived particle hypothesis buff.ly/3PXF3FB

#CMSPaper 1280 measures the strength of the strong nuclear force from the internal sub-blobs inside jets, the spray of particle debris that quarks and gluons leave when they are created. Yes, jets can measure one of the fundamental physics constants! buff.ly/49wJRsI

#CMSPaper 1279 looks for new undiscovered particles decaying to a b quark and a Higgs boson, a b quark and a Z boson, or a t quark and a W boson. These quark-like objects are common in predictions where more Higgs bosons exist. It is a #null result. buff.ly/49BCTm8

Goed interview van Jim Jansen met Dylan over zijn werk op CERN. Samen met begeleider Dr. Flavia Dias 🏳️‍🌈. Spannend onderzoek … want misschien bestaat wat Dylan zoekt namelijk wél 😇

🚨You’re underground at CMS and the alarm sounds – what do you do?🚨

That's exactly what CMS #safety set out to test in the latest evacuation exercise!

🗞️Read how this feeds into a wider study on exemplary underground safety operations:🗞️ cms.cern/news/blazing-t…

#CMSPaper 1278 looks at the #Higgsboson differently: Are there other particles that it decays into? That means we look for a 4-particle 125 GeV resonance that can decay to a combination of two muons, two taus, or two b quarks. There is not so much data yet buff.ly/3TBCnyH

Why do scientists smash particles together in a massive underground tunnel?

And now, why do so many scientists say that what we really need to do is build... a BIGGER one?

For our new episode of Huge If True, we traveled to Switzerland to visit CERN and explain the Large

Thomas Schörner, Steinar Stapnes and Maxim Titov report on the outcomes of a workshop to promote the sustainability of future accelerators

cerncourier.com/a/accelerator-…

#CMSPaper 1277 looks for a resonance in leptons produced together with top quark pairs. This could, for example, be created by an additional Higgs boson, so with different decay depending on mass, so checking separately for electrons, muons, and taus buff.ly/3VzdSEN

#CMSPaper 1276 is looking for particles with non-fractional charge, which could lead to anomalous ionization. As ionization in our silicon tracker depends on charge (amongst others), this can be tested for anomalous ionization deposits in CMS tracker data buff.ly/3PACitT

Adrian Hosak For great physics threads on twitter (incomplete list):

Jacopo Bertolotti (watch out for #PhysicsFactlet )
Markus Deserno
Nereide
Freya Blekman @[email protected]
Zhigang Suo
Nabil Iqbal

and johncarlosbaez (who has done this since before twitter was invented)
+ many more!

Germano Massullo - [email protected] CERN Oops! Correct link: cms.cern/news/cms-commi…

Director-general of CERN, anyone?

📈More than #OpenData , CMS continues to move towards #OpenScience 💪

🎉The statistical analysis tool used to find the #Higgs boson, along with the full statistical model and the data used to make the measurements are now available to all! 🎉

▶️ cms.cern/.../cms-commit…... CERN

It took a while, but it was an honor to contribute to this great book in the Grand Challenges by the European Physics Society, focusing on Physics for Society in the Horizon 2050 buff.ly/3vsWCqk

#CMSPaper 1275 measures top quark pair production in great detail (and versus various observables). This is important to improve simulations and analytical calculations when those are more precise, more subtle deviation scenarios can be tested buff.ly/3VCoBhN

#CMSPaper 1274 reports a null result on the search for heavy resonances decaying to a muon and a bottom quark, perhaps created by #leptoquarks . This is the world's most sensitive analysis for muon-bottom resonances
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