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Neutrinos Group

Award

César Jesús Valls Obtains RSEF Award for Best Experimental Physics Thesis

October 3, 2024

César defended his thesis in IFAE

New Member

New member in the Neutrinos group

September 12, 2024

Ewan Miller has just joined the Neutrinos group as Postdoctoral researcher.

Instrumentation

ND280 Upgrade Installation completed

May 15, 2024

On the 14th of May, the last two TOF panels were installed in ND280.

New Positions

Thorsten Lux nominated as leader of the ND280 working group for Hyper-Kamiokande

February 7, 2024

Thorsten Lux has been nominated as leader of the ND280 working group for Hyper-Kamiokande. ND280 will be crucial for the success of the Hyper-Kamiokande (HyperK) experiment.

Instrumentation

T2K ND280 Upgrade Milestone: Cosmic Tracks Recorded as New Detectors Installed

October 18, 2023

The T2K ND280 Upgrade project achieved a significant milestone as the first of the new Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) recorded cosmic tracks inside the ND280 pit.

Patents

Three new IFAE patents

October 9, 2023

IFAE filed a new medical imaging technology patent application: “Proton CT System with Improved Proton Energy Detector” and a patent application was granted named “Devices, Systems, and Methods for Mammography with a Detector Having Reduced Dimensions.” The third is a PET technology based new patent application filed in the European Patent Office.

Instrumentation

Time Projection Chambers (TPC) installation completed at J-PARC

September 13, 2023

The detector is already connected to the gas system and first cosmics in this configuration are expected to be recorded in about 4 weeks. First data taking with a neutrino beam is planned for the 2nd half of November and December.

Instrumentation

New ND280 Upgrade milestone achieved

May 8, 2023

At CERN, the first cosmic tracks with the first of the final TPC field cages have been recorded. An important milestone towards shipping the first TPC to Japan this summer.

New Publication

New Neutrinos group paper

January 25, 2023

The IFAE Neutrino group has a new publication: SuperFGD prototype time resolution studies ( I. Alekseev et al 2023 JINST 18 P01012) related to the T2K ND280 Upgrade project.