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The ALBA Synchrotron hosted on Friday, 14 April 2023, the workshop “InCAEM-Planes Complementarios for the Catalan scientific community”, where several research institutions from different areas of Catalonia took part.

The paper titled ‘A novel MCT focal plane array thermally stressed at low temperatures’ authored by Jorge Jiménez and co-authored by Cristobal Padilla has been published in the ‘IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement’ magazine.

“Cosmic muon flux attenuation methods for superconducting qubit experiments ” by members of the QCT group at IFAE has been uploaded to arXiv.

On March 6, the LST Collaboration published its first scientific paper in the Astronomy & Astrophysics journal. The paper focuses on a multi-wavelength study of the unidentified ultra-high-energy gamma-ray source known as LHAASO J2108+5157.

IFAE participated in the ETpathfinder meeting in Maastricht n Fed 22 - 23.

Cristobal Padilla and PhD student William d’Assignies, visited the Euclid space telescope at Thales Cannes on February 22, with eighty members of the European collaboration.

A delegation of the Chinese Academy of Science visited IFAE on Monday February 27 2023. The visit was part of a tour for reviewing the status of the collaborations with different European research institutions on space missions. IFAE has been participating in the design of the HERD cosmic-ray/gamma-ray detector for the China Space Station since 2020.

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.

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.