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The temperature control of the ASTEROID cryostat has been commissioned during Sept-Oct, 2020. After the simulation and tuning of the PID controllers, the dummy detector reached a relative temperature error of 0.5 mK at 100K and 50K, both exceeding the current temperature stability requirements.

‘A new B-flavour anomaly in Bd,s->K0 anti-K0: anatomy and interpretation’ by M. Algueró, A. Crivellin, S. Descotes-Genon, J. Matias and M. Novoa-Brunet. has been submitted to the arXiv.

‘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.