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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”

The 4th Red LHC workshop takes place this week from Wednesday until Friday online. The IFAE ATLAS group is giving three talks:

• “New results of the H+->tb search with full Run 2 data” by Adrian Salvador
• “New results for mono-jet searches with full Run 2 data” by José Luis Muñoz
• “Leptoquark searches with full Run 2 data” by Stergios Kazakos

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The integration tests of the new instrumented baffle in new IMC payload at the EGO clean room were successful. Also the optical test for TIS in the baffle surface was done succesfully.

Now the Baffle is being sent for optical coating , and the electronics are sent to industry for final assembly.

The Higgs 2020 conference is taking place online this week. A new ATLAS result of the associated production of ttbar with a Higgs boson decaying into bbar is presented, probing the CP properties of the Top-Higgs Yukawa coupling. Several IFAE members have contributed into this analysis.

Mario Martínez is part of the organizing committee of the Virtual Iberian Gravitational Wave Meeting

Stefano Terzo participated last week in a testbeam experiment at DESY, Hamburg measuring highly irradiated 3D pixel modules for the ATLAS upgrade at LH-LHC. The preliminary analysis of the data show a promising performance of these detectors even at large radiation doses.