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‘Topping-up multilepton plus b-jets anomalies at the LHC with a Z’ boson’, co-authored by A. Juste, together with T. Vazquez Schoeder and theorists E. Alvarez and M. Szewc, was recently submitted to the arXiv.

Alba Torres and Luca Cozzolino has just joined the QCT group at IFAE as PhD students. Alba studied at UAB and UPC while Luca completed his studies at Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II.

“Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Weak Lensing Shape Catalogue ”, led by Marco Gatti, has been uploaded to arXiv as part of the upcoming DES year 3 cosmology analysis of galaxy clustering and gravitational lensing.

The ATLAS trigger workshop with the scope “Ready for Run 3 - Trigger strategy and commissioning in 2022” is taking place online this week. Several members of the IFAE ATLAS team are participating, chairing sessions or giving talks.

The ATLAS High Granularity Timing Detector (HGTD) Sensor Specification Review took place on Nov 10th. This is the first step, of many, towards the sensor fabrication for HGTD. IFAE is interested in fabricating part of these sensors locally. S. Grinstein, as one of the HGTD sensor coordinators presented the specifications.

IFAE is contributing 3 talks:

• Alba Romero; “First Order Phase Transition signals in O3 data”
• Alexis Menendez, “Detection of CBC events in O3a using a convolutional neural network”
• Jorge Carretero, “CosmoHub: Interactive exploration and distribution of astronomical data on Hadoop”