Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · 12hOp bezoek bij FWO deze namiddag. Ook de proffen moeten soms op interview... 😬🫣 010
Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · 28/09/2026First time for everything: the physics report in the CMS week opening plenary ✅ 050
Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"should we organise society around renunciation and ever-shrinking horizons, or transform how we produce and choose a future worth wanting?" Putting it on the "would be nice to read when time allows" list. arxiv.org/abs/2609.30180arxiv.orgClimate, Science, and the FCC: Think Clearly, Choose Wisely, Act SwiftlyCould a collider become the symbol of everything that must be abandoned to save the climate? In the summer of 2026, this question ran through discussions within the Particles and Fields Division of th... 110
Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · 24/09/2026On the train to Karlsruhe, paying our German colleagues a visit. Tomorrow morning I talk on physics with the CMS experiment - they gave me 45 minutes! 🌴🍹 A different scope, but next week Monday in the CMS week I'll have to squeeze everything in 20 minutes 😱 000
Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Perks of being at CERN... Today I saw by chance an old friend back, Abdel Djouadi. He is an absolute world authority in Higgs physics, but I met him in my first PhD year, just being fun, friendly, and scientifically curious with new students. So nice, it made my day! 060
Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Ik heb net een kom rijst laten vallen over de keukenvloer. Echt rottig spul om op te ruimen, met hun zetmeel en zo. Zo is de keuken wel weer proper natuurlijk... #fml 020
Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Doing admin tonight for the French school transport. Horrendous website navigation (how to change my address !%$#?). This reminds me a recent discussion here (about taxes etc); we all agreed there is almost no way to be sure we're doing things the way they are supposed to be done. Too complex. 110
Reposted by Steven LowetteOlivier Pintelon @olivierpintelon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Jef Maes slaat weer nagels met koppen vandaag in De Morgen. De rode begrotingscijfers maken deel uit van een bewuste strategie om de sociale zekerheid 'uit te roken'. Deze legislatuur alleen al bijna €2 miljard aan bijkomende kortingen voor bedrijven en €6 miljard voor belastingsverlagingen. 23420
Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · 09/09/2026By using IArxiv.org to get a daily digest of new papers that match my interests makes that now I get all the LZ dark matter ambulance chasing papers on the top of my list, with scores as high as 0.97 😋iarxiv.orgIArxiv 010
Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Tonight we say bye to the old management of our experiment and welcome the new one. How to do this? Fondue 🫕 when it's 30° outside 😂static.klipy.comFondue FromageALT: Fondue Fromage 150
Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · 05/09/2026We moved to CERN last week with just a 2-week temporary housing. Not ideal for our daughter starting school, but it was too difficult to arrange ahead of time. Luckily this weekend it looks like we found a nice place!static.klipy.comEnergetic Baby Dancing with JoyALT: Energetic Baby Dancing with Joy 180
Reposted by Steven LowettePhilippe Smet @pfsmet.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Voor de politici die hun post-reces dossiers voorbereiden: tot nu is 2026 uitzonderlijk, maar eigenlijk niet out-of-the-blue. De stevige trend keren (bovenste 📈) zal moeten (maar veel inspanning kosten) én 2026 is voorbeeld voor nabije toekomst, waaraan we ons moeten aanpassen. Hop, aan het werk! 051
Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Mooie uitleg over wat de donkere materie gemeenschap sinds enkele dagen doet zoemen van voorzichtige opwinding. www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...vrt.beHebben wetenschappers een glimp opgevangen van donkere materie? "Alsof er een pakje onder de kerstboom ligt" | VRT NWS NieuwsWetenschappers vermoeden dat ze voor het eerst een glimp zouden kunnen hebben opgevangen van donkere materie. In een reusachtige detector, anderhalve kilometer onder de grond, hebben ze mogelijk een b... 030
Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · 02/09/2026For my followers who are in-understandable-language-curious about the LZ result I posted about yesterday. 010
Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This is... interesting! 1 event, but a very clean one... 🧐 350
Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Although I'm already ramping up since 3 months, today is the first day on the physics coordination job. The speed and thus need for efficiency is quite daunting! But now I'm heading over to p5 now for LHCC meeting and maybe visit underground? 350
Reposted by Steven LowetteCMS Experiment at CERN @cmsexperiment.bsky.social · 24/08/2026In search of unknown forces 🔎 CMS studies pairs of heavy force-carrying particles – W and Z bosons – to set the world’s most stringent constraints on anomalous interactions between them. 📍Read more: cms.cern/news/search-... 092
Reposted by Steven LowetteJürgen Sörgel @jurgen-sorgel.bsky.social · 23/08/2026So let me sum up: Patrick's neutrinos (English) Patricks neutrino's (Dutch) Patricks Neutrinos (German) 🤪 1114
Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Some students know what kind of present to get... 😉 230
Reposted by Steven LowetteProf Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 21/08/2026😱 www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgArson attack jolts Italy’s bid to host the Einstein TelescopeTwo scientists' cars were burned at the proposed Sardinian site, in what researchers say was an attempt to intimidate supporters of the gravitational-wave observatory 2117
Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Today I listened for the first time in almost 20y to "the last shadow puppets". Amazing how the atmosphere of back then whirled back at me. I still knew so much of it, still felt like great music. I hope my daughter likes it too now 🙂 010
Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Wow! The picture is terrible, the experience goose bumps! 080
Reposted by Steven LowetteCMS Experiment at CERN @cmsexperiment.bsky.social · 05/08/2026🎆 150 collisions and thousands of particles detected at once! A special test run allowed CMS to test the next generation of particle-tracking and identifying algorithms, years before the High-Luminosity LHC comes online. 👉 Read more in the CMS Briefing: cms.cern/news/glimpse... 0112
Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · 31/07/2026The #ICHEP2026 conference has started, and CMS has a lot of great new results that will be presented there! cms.cern/news/cms-ich...cms.cernCMS at ICHEP 2026 | CMS Experiment 141
Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · 30/07/2026"Inleiding tot de thermodynamica" als verplichte cursus voor iemand online aankopen mag doen aub dankuwel. #stevenhelpt 080
Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · 29/07/2026When they're done, I know of another project they may be interested in... #FCC 240
Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · 27/07/2026This week I'm at DESY Hamburg for the CMS trigger workshop, where we devise cunning plans to collect great data with CMS at the High Luminosity LHC from 2030 onwards. The big question: how much compute and storage can we afford? Today I tried to bring some physics perspective 😎 020
Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · 27/07/2026That's a first: a signature under a mattermost message. #cernlifestatic.klipy.comConfused White Cat Asks WhyALT: Confused White Cat Asks Why 010
Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Brussels airport has become an extension of Tomorrowland. 8am DJ got quite a crowd 😯 #BRU-HAM 010
Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · 21/07/2026It's also national holiday in our university cantine... 230
Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · 21/07/202621 juli is geen CERN vakantiedag... 8h vergaderen voor de boeg, waarvan 4 analyse approvals! (Mooie resultaten, dat wel!) 040
Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Back from holidays but still with my mind in paradise. [that was our boat for a week; I took the picture] 041
Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Impressive analysis, in particular what concerns low-momentum electron reconstruction. Really low-momentum! 000
Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · 29/06/2026It's the end of the LHC! 16 years of success! 💪 Next: no beam for several years as the accelerator as well as the experiments get a huge upgrade towards our next milestone: the HL-LHC NB: nice #douglasadams reference. 3122
Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Never throw away your data. Someday someone will have a great idea to test. arxiv.org/abs/2606.21094arxiv.orgAnalysis note: Long-range near-side correlation in $e^+e^-$ with $W$-boson-pair events at 183-209 GeV with ALEPH archived dataEvents characterized by a high multiplicity of charged particles have been a central focus in the study of collective behavior across both large and small collision systems. A previous measurement of ... 040
Reposted by Steven LowetteCERN @cern.bsky.social · 19/06/2026François Englert (1932 – 2026) It is with great sadness that we announce that Belgian theoretical physicist, François Englert, has passed away at the age of 93. Read more: home.cern/francois-eng... 210943
Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Many many deadlines are piling up against June 30. Luckily I leave on holidays on July 2nd.static.klipy.comPlate Spinning Stage PerformanceALT: Plate Spinning Stage Performance 020
Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Nice catching up with @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social ! 110
Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Today in the CMS opening plenary session a slide was shown listing a talk I gave in 2006 😱 Also a picture from 2009 was shown... I'm officially "less young" now 😆 020
Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · 08/06/2026So @geschept.bsky.social I'll be visiting ISOLDE for the first time on Thursday. Clarinval is visiting CERN 😎 150
Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Even erg als AI slop is AI reporting. Mensen toch wat een onzin verschijnt er allemaal... 011
Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · 05/06/2026This is a beautiful job! And really sad that it's vacant - the previous editor passed away so young... careers.cern/jobs/sr-eco-...careers.cernCERN Courier Editor 051
Steven Lowette @stevenlowette.bsky.social · 03/06/2026A search from our ATLAS friends in pileup collisions - the first one I'm aware of. Nice! I've been working on an untriggered search in pileup myself since many years, but mine is a tricky signature, so it's still not public... arxiv.org/abs/2606.03222arxiv.orgSearch for electroweak scale dijet resonances in pile-up collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS detectorA search for dijet resonances in the mass range of 100-250 GeV is presented using proton-proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at a centre-of-mass energy ... 020