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.

The Raman LIDAR mirror realuminization process has taken place in the last weeks.

The ATLAS Upgrade Week is on-going (online only). Various members of the ATLAS group are presenting the status of the IFAE activities in the context of ITk Pixels and HGTD.

A second refrigerator has been installed in the Quantum Computing Lab at IFAE. This refrigerator has been funded by Qilimanjaro.

Find below the latest pictures of the upgraded Quantum Computing Lab

Qilimanjaro and IFAE are mentioned in the article “España se prepara para la era de la computación cuántica” at Expansion. Find the pdf [here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ppLZoLE_VcPpCXoo3FY2AYzRg6htL9hk/view)

Two new publications by the Gravitational Waves grup at IFAE

The article “The SuperFGD Prototype charged particle beam tests” published in JINST describes the SuperFGD prototype and summarizes the results of the analysis of the data taken in summer 2018 at the T9 testbeam at CERN.

2nd TPC prototype for the ND280 Upgrade project production finished

Last week took place the equipment installation in the QCT lab, which includes a refrigerator (Bluefors), a compressor (Cryomech), and a water chiller, among others.

Ville Vaskonen has joined the Theory Division as a Postdoctoral researcher

The ATLAS Higgs and Top (HTop) workshop is taking place online this week. Several members of the IFAE ATLAS group are attending it.

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