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Thorsten Lux has been elected as one of the 4 international members of the Executive Committee of T2K.

“B Flavour Anomalies: 2021 Theoretical Status Report ” by Joquim Matias and David London has been uploaded to arXiv and will be published in the Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science.

“New Roads to the Small-Scale Universe: Measurements of the Clustering of Matter with the High-Redshift UV Galaxy Luminosity Function ” and “GALLUMI: A Galaxy Luminosity Function Pipeline for Cosmology and Astrophysics ” by Diego Blas and collaborators have been uploaded to arXiv.

IFAE participated in the 2021 BIST Conference on Quantum Technologies . The main event of took place on Wednesday 3, November 2021. And satellite sessions were organized during the week.

IFAE’s patent “systems and methods for monitoring metabolic activity and detectors for detecting photons” based on the Compton PET technology, has been issued as United States Patent No. 11,141,117 on October 12, 2021 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

“Timepix4, a large area pixel detector readout chip which can be tiled on 4 sides providing sub-200ps timestamp binning”, by R. Casanova and others, has been submitted to JINST.

“Evolution of Data Formats in Very-High-Energy Gamma-ray Astronomy ” by Cosimo Nigro and collaborators has been uploaded to arXiv.

Martine Bosman was recently elected as a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc). EurASc is a fully independent international association of distinguished scholars that aims to recognize and elect to its membership the best European scientists with a vision for Europe as a whole, transcending national borders, and with the aims of strengthening European science and scientific cooperation.

Wafers with the ALTIROC2 chip were received this week. This is a major milestone for the HGTD project.R. Casanova played a leading role in the design of the digital part of the chip and its verification.