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

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.

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

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.

“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.

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

Sergio González from the IFAE ATLAS group will present the talk “Dark Matter - ATLAS and CMS results” at the online conference LCWS2021

The project “Simulating the expansion of the COVID-19 outbreak: a risk forecast tool considering socioeconomic and gender inequalities in Barcelona” led by Pere Masjuan awarded a Scientific Research Awards by the Barcelona city council.