Instrumentation

New HGTD project milestone

February 9, 2022

Collider Physics Group

The first results of charge collection in ALTIROC2 prototypes for HGTD have been carried out at IFAE.

The sensors were fabricated at HPK, the ASIC digital design led by R. Casanova. The devices were fully assembled at IFAE including bump-bonding. The firmware and software were also developed by IFAE (C. Puigdengoles, S. Terzo and L. Castillo).

The results will be presented next week in the HGTD week.

Latest Group News

New position

Aurelio Juste appointed Deputy Chair of the Publications Committee

March 1, 2023

Aurelio Juste starts as Deputy Chair of the Publications Committee (PubComm) for one year, and will become the Chair for the following year, starting on 1 March 2024.

IFAE organization

New positions in the IFAE Organization

January 16, 2023

Mario Martinez, ICREA professor at IFAE and head of the Gravitational Waves Group, is the new Director of the Experimental Division and takes on the role of IFAE Deputy Director. Martine Bosman, retiring Director of the Experimental Division, assumes the status of IFAE Emeritus.

New Publication

New ATLAS group paper

January 12, 2023

The paper “Search for a new scalar resonance in flavour-changing neutral-current top-quark decays 𝒕 → 𝒒𝑿 (𝒒 = 𝒖, 𝒄), with 𝑿 → 𝒃𝒃bar, in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector” has been submitted to JHEP.