Milestone

ATLAS Run 3 start in full swing

June 8, 2022

Collider Physics Group

Last week the the LHC delivered a total of 5 fills with 900 GeV collisions (stable beams were declared during 4 fills). In total, approximately 23 hours of stable beams at injection energy were delivered to ATLAS.

The LHC did also first “test collisions” of the proton beams at 13.6 TeV with a non-stable beam fill using nominal bunches (with approximately 10^11 protons per bunch).

Shalini Epari, a PhD student from IFAE was on shift in the ATLAS control room. Using the very valuable data collected so far, timing in, calibrations and in general commissioning are in full swing. Stable beam collisions at 13.6 TeV are still foreseen 5 July, on the day following the 10th anniversary Symposium of the Higgs boson discovery

ATLAS Detector

Latest Group News

New Position

Aurelio Juste starts as Chair of the ATLAS Publication Committee

March 6, 2024

On 1 March 2024, Aurelio Juste started as Chair of the Publications Committee (PubCom) for one year.

Prize

Qilimanjaro wins 4YFN Awards 2024

March 6, 2024

The IFAE spin-off ​​Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech, was recognized at the Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2024 as the best digital start-up in the world.

Instrumentation

First Pre-production Modules for the ATLAS upgrades for the LH-LHC Assembled at IFAE

February 21, 2024

The first pre-production triplet module for the ATLAS upgrades for the LH-LHC has been assembled this week at IFAE. The IFAE ATLAS Pixels group is building modules for the innermost pixel layer of the tracking detector (ITk) and the new high granularity timing detector (HGTD).