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News

In the Media

Latest Fermilab results at diari ARA

April 9, 2021

Pere Masjuan is quoted in an article in the diari Ara about the lastest Fermilab’s Muon g-2 experiment results.

Education

Master's degree in Quantum Science and Technology

April 8, 2021

IFAE participates sin the new UB master’s degree in Quantum Science and Technology.

Instrumentation

The Raman LIDAR Pathfinder on CTA-North Site Achieves First Light

April 7, 2021

On the evening of the 25 March, the Barcelona Raman LIDAR Pathfinder installed on the CTA-North site at the ORM achieved first light.

New experimental results

LHCb results strengthen hints of a violation of lepton flavour universality

April 7, 2021

LHCb has overcome the 3 sigma barrier in the tension between the measurement of the observable RK and the prediction of the SM, reaching 3.1 sigmas. This observable tests the universality (or not) of leptonic flavor. The SM predicts a value of 1 very accurately for this observable.

Institutional

Jordi Puigneró, the Generalitat’s Minister of Digital Policy & Public Administration, visits PIC

April 7, 2021

The Minister of Digital Policy & Public Administration of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Jordi Puigneró, visited PIC on Tuesday 6th, April 2021.

Conference

Clustering & Global Challenges conference

April 7, 2021

The Barcelona-Grenoble-Tsukuba “Clustering and Global Challenges” (CGC2021) international online conference presented the most recent research advances and technology developments in different hot sectors such as Quantum Technologies, Advanced Materials, … Manel Martinez was part of the organizing committee. Pol Forn-Díaz gave a talk introuducing the AVaQus project.

Conference

141st Meeting of the SPSC

April 7, 2021

On the 13th of April, the open session of the 141st meeting of the SPSC will take place remotely, Thorsten Lux will present the status and plans of the project NP07: The Upgrade of the ND280 Detector.

Publication

New GW group Publication

March 24, 2021

Implications for first-order cosmological phase transitions from the third LIGO-Virgo observing run ” by Alba Romero, Katarina Martinovic, Thomas A. Callister, et al. has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.

Collaboration Meeting

Ligo-Virgo-Kagra week

March 18, 2021

The IFAE GW group is presenting 2 posters in the plenary poster session of the Ligo-Virgo-Kagra week