We are fortunate to get some of the best and brightest—like Saptaparna Bhattacharya from Northwestern, who is doing a Humboldt-Stiftung Fellowship here in our CMS Experiment CERN group! She is leading CMS efforts on discovery of production of three electroweak bosons at once.

The American Physical Society (APS) announced a new measurement of the electron’s magnetism – a discovery made by the Gabrielse Group in Northwestern’s Center for Fundamental Physics (CFP). Read more: wcas.nu/3Zdv5CX.

Astrophysicist Wen-fai Fong, was recognized by Astronomy Magazine in their list, “Rising Stars in Astronomy.” Fong is assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Northwestern. Northwestern University Physics and Astronomy Read more: wcas.nu/3l4yKUL.

I wrote a new ParticleBites on why the Higgs self-coupling is both very cool and very important to measure! Many consider it the most important part of the LHC's long term research program and potential future colliders particlebites.com/?p=9909

If new particles exist, the W-boson mass should deviate slightly from the Standard Model. However it is extremely difficult to measure with high precision! To be sensitive to new physics, mass measurements need to have tiny uncertainties – around 0.01%. youtube.com/watch?v=yJ4Zdy…

Important work done by HFLAV combining quark-flavor-related measurements from several experiments. Physics - Heavy-Flavor Properties Get an Update physics.aps.org/articles/v16/s…

This looks like a really great course!

Looks like an extremely useful review.

Fantastic colloquium at Northwestern yesterday by Jesse Thaler - machine learning applied to QCD itself! + great conversation about the future of particles physics (P5) and the crucial role played by young researchers with interdisciplinary training!

Wow, one can even read the logbooks! Cool!!

Happy to see this petition and to sign it! I hope many people do.

Our paper making neural networks more modular, sparse and interpretable by penalizing neuron length is now on arXiv. Less is more! Ziming Liu arxiv.org/abs/2305.08746

Celeste Labedz Journal Club! And go to seminars. After that, reserve one hour a week reading papers that you learned about in the first two events and thought were interesting

An interesting blog post, especially the comment from Geordie Williamson.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 011803 (2023) - Probing Heavy Majorana Neutrinos and the Weinberg Operator through Vector Boson Fusion Processes in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{TeV}$ journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1…

Fun facts about three dimensions: -the only dimensionality in which knots can exist -the only one where Newtonian gravity gives a closed stable orbit -the only one where the Ising model doesn't have a known solution -the last one where polymers bumping into themselves matters

Doing a revision? It's not commonly taught but an effective way to structure the point-by-point response to reviewers is to distinguish for each point the 'Response' and the 'Action'. Things proceed smoother when it's easy for reviewers to know how each 'Concern' was addressed.

Greetings from the CMS Experiment CERN control room where I’m presently on shift. We have permanent video connections to other remote control rooms, tonight (or should I say this afternoon 😇) Jingli is connecting from Fermilab to do the data quality monitoring!

Read this very clear and simple explanation of why we already know that antimatter falls downward.

Seven students have received the prestigious U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research Award to conduct their research at Fermilab. Congratulations! news.fnal.gov/2023/10/fermil…