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Funding

IFAE obtains funding in CERCA GINYS program

May 8, 2024

IFAE, together with the IEEC (Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya), has got 2 of the 5 funded infrastructures in the III GINYS call.

New Publication

Theory group paper on Scientific American

May 2, 2024

Scientific American has published the article interviewing Ricardo Z. Ferreira, former postdoc in the Theory Group.

Instrumentation

Mini-Cactus-v2 is ready for testing

April 24, 2024

The first samples of Mini-Cactus-v2 sensor have been received at IFAE.

Press

IFAE in the press

April 17, 2024

Latest appearances of IFAE in the press

Instrumentation

Test facility ETpathfinder enters new phase

March 12, 2024

The IFAE contributions to the ETpathfinder test facility is described in this article “Test facility ETpathfinder enters new phase ”.

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.

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.

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).

Instrumentation

Six new 3D sensors modules produced by the ATLAS Pixels group at IFAE

February 14, 2024

During the start of 2024, the ATLAS pixel group assembled new 3D sensor modules for AFP (a diffractive experiment in ATLAS).