Andreu Font-Ribera presented DESI in a talk at the [2021 Meeting of the APS Division of Particles & Fields (DPF21)](https://indico.cern.ch/event/1034469/) with the title “Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument: Science Overview”.
Author Archive
New Neutrino group publication
“[ProtoDUNE-DP Light Acquisition and Calibration Software](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9476025)” has been published at IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. T. Lux and J. Boix are part of the authors of the paper.
LST1’s and CTA’s First ATEL
The LST-1 and CTA published their first [Astronomer’s Telegram (ATEL) on 13 Jul 2021; 21:03 UT](https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=14783): “Detection of very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from BL Lac with the LST-1”
The IFAE GW group at the Almadi14 Conference
The GW group at IFAE is contributing talks and posters to [Almadi 14](https://www.amaldi14.org/), the most important conference in the field.
New Theory group publications
Two new papers on gravitational waves by Theory group member Diego Blas and collaborator Alex Jenkins. [Detecting stochastic gravitational waves with binary resonance](https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.04063) and [Bridging the μHz gap in the gravitational-wave landscape with binary resonance](https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.04601)
New gas extractor hood installed at IFAE
New gas extractor hood installed in the IFAE clean room to be able to carry out part of the in-house manufacturing of chips and thus have better control of the results and production of chips.
The IFAE theory group at HADRON 2021
The 19th International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy and Structure in memoriam Simon Eidelman ([HADRON2021](https://indico.nucleares.unam.mx/event/1541/overview)) is taking place on July 26 – 31, 2021. The Theory Group at IFAE is contributing 2 talks
New GW and Theory group publication
“[Search for a scalar induced stochastic gravitational wave background in the third LIGO-Virgo observing run](https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.11660)” by A. Romero-Rodriguez, Mario Martinez, O. Pujolàs, M. Sakellariadou, V. Vaskonen has been uploaded to arXiv.
IFAE at EPS-HEP 2021
The European Physical Society conference on high energy physics 2021 ([EPS-HEP 2021](http://https://indico.desy.de/event/28202/overview)), one of the most important conferences in HEP of the year, is taking place online this week. Three IFAE groups are participating:
ATLAS Pixels group milestone achieved
The ATLAS pixel group completed the first step to qualify IFAE as a 3D module production site for the HL-LHC upgrade
New Member in the GW group
Marc Andrés has joined the Gravitational Waves group as a PhD student.
New Theory group publication
“[Lensing of gravitational waves as a probe of compact dark matter](https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.03213) by Juan Urrutia and Ville Vaskonen has been uploaded to arXiv.