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Publication

New ATLAS publication

June 30, 2021

Measurement of the tttt production cross section in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector ” has been submitted to JHEP. Members of the IFAE-ATLAS team (Aurelio Juste, Nicola Orlando, and Anil Sonay) have played a leading role in this publication, from designing the analysis strategy to the final multivariate technique and statistical analysis employed.

Spin-offs

IFAE spin-offs at the MWC

June 30, 2021

IFAE Spin-offs Qilimanjaro Quantum tech and Deep Detection presented their technolpogies and services at the 2021 Mobile Congress in Barcelona

ATLAS Milestone

ATLAS celebrates results of 1000 collision papers

June 30, 2021

The ATLAS Collaboration celebrates the creativity, wealth and scientific impact enshrined in its 1000 papers using LHC collision data.

Conference

Adiabatic Quantum Computing Conference 2021 (AQC 2021)

June 22, 2021

Pol Forn presented the project AvAQus in the talk ‘Introducing project AVaQus: Annealing-based variational quantum processors’

Conference

10th International Workshop on CHARM Physics (CHARM 2021)

June 4, 2021

IFAE Theory group researchrs Pere Masjuan and Pablo Sánchez contributed talks to the workshop

New IFAE Members

New Member in the Theory group

June 2, 2021

Cristian Alarcon has just joined the Theory Group.

Conference

Phenomenology 2021 Symposium

May 26, 2021

Anil Sonay, member of the IFAE-ATLAS group at gave the talk “The search for rare top production and decay processes with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC” at Pheno 2021 on 24-26 May 2021

Instrumentation

Phase I of the upgrades to Advanced Virgo+ completed

May 26, 2021

Ten months after the beginning of the upgrade to Advanced Virgo+, Phase I of the installation is completed. The upgrade includes the new instrumented baffle designed and built at IFAE to control and monitor the stray light inside the experiment.

Conference

International Conference on Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics

May 26, 2021

Thorsten Lux gave a talk about the ND280 Upgrade and Cesar Jesus-Valls ptesented a poster related to the scintillator tracker (SuperFGD) at TIPP2021 on 24-28 May 2021