Aswe go forth into our “one wild and precious lives,"And into the sacred darkness of this holy night,may our hearts be vulnerable to beauty,and to the pain of each other.May our minds be open to truth,and questioning injustice.And may our hearts and lives be centered in what is true,and liberating, and life giving, so that[…]
English posts
A couple of developments toward the future of FCC
Overthe past few months, despite my sporadic presence on these pages, I’ve been reporting in bits and pieces on the work done for the update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics. I had, for instance, written about it during the French symposium, which was expected to lead to the drafting of a national […]
Here we go again!
We have beam in the tunnel!Today, the Large Hadron Collider received the first particle beams of 2025. Protons were injected into the LHC for the first time since November 2024, when the annual year-end technical stop (YETS) started. This is the fourth year of LHC Run3, and the new data-taking season is about to[…]
CERN releases the FCC feasibility study
(This is the English translation of this post) A couple of days ago, CERN released the feasibility report for the FCC (Future Circular Collider) project, the future circular accelerator that could be the successor to the LHC. As I have already mentioned on these pages, this is an ambitious project structured in […]
Living with a pre-teen Higgs boson
OnMay 8 this year, I was invited by the Particle Physics Department of the University of Geneva to give a seminar on what we have learned about the Higgs boson since its discovery. I ended up titling the talk "Living with a Pre-Teen Higgs Boson: 12 Years with the Higgs Boson, and the Next […]
Mario Draghi, the FCC, China, and the future of particle physics
(Thisis the English translation of this post)About a month ago, the Report on European Union Competitiveness, tasked to Mario Draghi by the European Commission, was released. It has been discussed widely, and I don't intend to provide a full analysis here. However, I find it interesting to highlight an aspect that I […]
CERN's energy at home
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This morning, after dropping off Giulia at school and on my way to CERN, I noticed a sign in front of a road closed for construction that caught my attention. It was raining cats and dogs, but I still stopped to take a photo:
The sign, placed […]
This morning, after dropping off Giulia at school and on my way to CERN, I noticed a sign in front of a road closed for construction that caught my attention. It was raining cats and dogs, but I still stopped to take a photo:The sign, placed […]If I told you I'd have to kill you
Beingemployed by a research institute (the French IN2P3, largely corresponding to the Italian INFN), contrary to university researchers or professors I do not have formal teaching duties. This leaves me plenty of time to devote to research (teaching can be very time-consuming, especially considering evaluations and exams that come with the job!), and that's a […]
Sometimes I wonder
SometimesI wonder what would have happened if I had written this blog in English since its humble beginnings. Not that I really considered that at the time, I was really just writing some sort of diary for family and friends. But then came the LHC startup, and the superluminal neutrinos, and the […]
