The Fiber Tracker for the HERD space cosmic-ray/gamma-ray detector is being tested this week with high-energy ions at the CERN SPS.
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Bojos per la Física 2024 concludes with its closing ceremony
On Saturday, November 9, the Institut de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2) hosted the closing ceremony for Bojos per la Física, an advanced physics program organized by IFAE, ICN2, and Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera.
New ATLAS group publication
“Search for vector-like leptons coupling to first- and second-generation Standard Model leptons in pp collisions at s√=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector”
New ATLAS group publication
“Search for a heavy charged Higgs boson decaying into a W boson and a Higgs boson in final states with leptons and b-jets in s√=13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector”
New DESI Results Weigh In On Gravity
A complex analysis of DESI’s first year of data provides one of the most stringent tests yet of general relativity and how gravity behaves at cosmic scales. IFAE, ICCUB, CIEMAT, ICE-CSIC and IFT have played a significant role in achieving these important results.
New member in the Quantum Computing group
Guillermo Del Riego has joined the QCT group as a PhD student
New member in the Quantum Computing group
Ariadna Gómez has joined the QCT group as a PhD student
New member in the ATLAS Pixel group
Mahima Sachdeva has joined the ATLAS Pixel group as a PhD student
IFAE Joins Global LIGO Collaboration to Advance Gravitational Wave Research
IFAE has joined the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, strengthening its contributions to international gravitational wave research using terrestrial interferometry.
IFAE Researcher Tamara Vázquez Schröder obtains funding in the ATRAE Call
Tamara Vázquez Schröder has been awarded the ATRAE 2024 grant to address some of the most pressing unanswered questions in particle physics, through precision measurements and searches using data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Cosimo Nigro joins the UAB Physics Department Faculty
IFAE gamma-ray astronomy researcher Cosimo Nigro has joined the UAB Physics Department Faculty as Lecturer (Professor Lector) in the High Energy Physics Unit (Unitat de Física d’Altes Energies). Cosimo had already been teaching in the Department as a Teaching Associate (Professor Associat) during his postdoctoral stay at IFAE.
Kick-off of ACME, an EU-funded project built by and for the astroparticle and the astronomy communities
On the 16th and 17th of September was held in Paris the kick-off meeting for the Astrophysics Centre for Multimessenger studies in Europe – ACME. IFAE and PIC participate leading the improvement of transnational access to the MAGIC telescopes.