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A couple of developments toward the future of FCC

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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!

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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
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Mario Draghi, the FCC, China, and the future of particle physics

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(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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(Thisis the English translation of this post)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

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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 […]

ICHEP: random collection of final impressions, and a tentative balance

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ICHEPis over. After the last plenary session the few remaining braves stormed out of the auditorium, strained with conference fatigue, and headed back home. I must confess, I found a week-long conference, with six full days packed with presentations, pretty long and tiring. I'm not completely surprised that in the last days not many questions […]