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.

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

Boris Nedyalkov has just joined the QCT Group as a PhD student.

Sebastián Grinstein presented the ALTAS High Granularity Timing Detector (HGTD) project at the Vertex 2020 (online) conference.

The ATLAS Collaboration week is taking place online this week. Several members of the IFAE-ATLAS team are attending and Ilya Korolkov is presenting the status of the Tile Calorimeter for the Phase-II upgrade

Deep Detection, the spin-off company created from the LINDA project in the innovation program The Collider (Mobile World Capital Barcelona) was featured in the ‘Economy’ section of El Correo

The FET OPEN project launch took place virtually with a conference call between the 8 partner institutions on Wednesday October 14th, 2020.

A consortium of research institutes and industry partners in Catalonia join forces to develop the Quantum Technologies Hub. IFAE participates.

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.

The classification and definitive analysis of the 39 events detected by Virgo and LIGO in the third observation period was published today on ArXiv. Most of these are black hole mergers, the characteristics of which, however, question some established astrophysical models and open up new scenarios.

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”