New Position
Aurelio Juste elected Chair of the ATLAS Publication Committee
October 26, 2022
Collider Physics GroupAt the 103rd Collaboration Board meeting, held on 14 October 2022, Aurelio Juste was elected as the next Deputy Chair of the Publications Committee (PubComm) for one year, starting on 1 March 2023, and becoming the Chair for the following year, starting on 1 March 2024.
This is a high-profile position within the ATLAS Collaboration. Among other tasks, the PubComm Chair is responsible for overseeing the review and approval of all ATLAS publications, as well as developing the ATLAS publication policy for approval by the Collaboration Board.
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).