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Instrumentation

First LST observations after the volcano eruption.

February 9, 2022

The CTA LST telescope is back in operation. After a few weeks dedicated to cleaning the site and checking the telescope subsystems, the first sky data were taken in early February.

Cosmohub

DES Y3 galaxy catalog available in CosmoHub

January 31, 2022

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) released on the January 12nd the Year 3 data products used for cosmology analysis. A mirror of the Gold galaxy catalog from DES Y3 is now available in CosmoHub .

Conference

IFAE at Moriond Cosmology 2022

January 27, 2022

The Moriond Cosmology took place on January 23-30, La Thuile, Italy. Members of the observational Cosmology group at IFAE contributed to the conference.

New Paper

New Medical Physics paper

January 26, 2022

The IFAE Neutrino Group in collaboration with research groups from Birmingham and Geneva published a feasibility study about a calorimeter for proton CT applications in “Physics in Medicine & Biology (PMB) “: “A novel range telescope concept for proton CT ”.

New Paper

New Gravitational Waves paper

January 26, 2022

Search for a scalar induced stochastic gravitational wave background in the third LIGO-Virgo observing run ” by Alba Romero-Rodríguez, Mario Martínez, Oriol Pujolàs, et al. has been selected as PRL Editors’ Suggestion.

New Paper

New Theory group paper

January 23, 2022

Axial-vector exchange contribution to the Hyperfine Splitting by Pablo Sanchez-Puertas and collaborators has been published in Physical review D.”

Website

The DESI website is now translated to Catalan

January 19, 2022

All the detailed explanations both about the scientific objectives and about the instrumentation and the telescope can now be found in catalan . Marc Manera has led this effort.

New Paper

New Theory group paper

January 19, 2022

Operator delocalization in quantum networks ” by Jan Ollé and others has been published in Physical Review A.

New Paper

New Neutrinos group paper

January 19, 2022

A 4π time-of-flight detector for the ND280/T2K upgrade ” by Thorsten Lux and collaborators has been published in Journal of Instrumentation.