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

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 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.

George Zahariade has joined the Theory Group. His research interests lie at the interface of general relativity and quantum field theory.

“Baryogenesis via gauge field production from a relaxing Higgs ” by Y. Cado, B. von Harling, E. Masso and M. Quiros has been submitted to JHEP.

“Did NANOGrav See a Signal from Primordial Black Hole Formation?” by V. Vaskonen and Hardi Veermäe has been published in PRL

‘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.

Ricardo Zambujal has joined the Theory Division as a Postdoctoral researcher.

Ville Vaskonen has joined the Theory Division as a Postdoctoral researcher