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10/11/2011 - End of 2011 LHC proton-proton runEnd of 2011 LHC proton-proton runOctober 30th marked the last day of the 2011 proton-proton run, ending a remarkable period from the data-taking point of view, with more than 5 fb-1 (inverse femtobarn) being delivered to the experiments. This is five times the goal of one fb-1, set at the beginning of the year for the whole 2011 data taking period. After that a one-month operation period devoted to heavy-ion data-taking started, to complete the full physics program of the year.
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25/10/2011 - New T2K experiment public web pageNew T2K experiment public web pageThe T2K Collaboration has a new public web page. It includes a lot of information not only about the experiment itself, but about neutrino physics. You can find it at http://t2k-experiment.org/. |
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08/07/2011 - IFAE in the NewsIFAE in the NewsThe local and national press media echoed the recent electron neutrino appearance results announced by the T2K collaboration on June 15 2011. IFAE researchers have played a very visible role in obtaining this result, both in the construction of the apparatus and in the data analysis. |
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04/07/2011 - LHC already reaches its collisions goals for 2011LHC already reaches its collisions goals for 2011In the first half of 2011 LHC has delivered more than one fb-1 (inverse femtobarn) of integrated luminosity to the experiments. One inverse femtobarn corresponds to approximately 70 million million collisions. In fact, LHC crossed the one inverse femtobarn goal set in 2010 for the whole 2011 run on June 16th, just three months since the beginning of this year's run. This shows the excellent performance of the accelerator and brings nearer the moment when new physics may show up. Read more on the CERN press release. |
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15/06/2011 - Electron Neutrino Appearance at T2KThe T2K experiment, whose primary purpose is to study neutrino interactions at a large distance from their source, has detected 6 electron neutrino candidate events based on the data collected before March 11, 2011. For the first time, it was possible to observe an indication that muon neutrinos are able to transform into electron neutrinos over a distance of 295 km through the quantum mechanical phenomena of neutrino flavor oscillations.
The IFAE neutino group has actively contributed to the analysis in several aspects of the near detector data analysis for flux normalization and systematic cross-checks. A Candidate Event of Electron Neutrino at T2K
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19/11/2010 - IFAE among the top ten Catalan Research InstitutesIFAE among the top ten Catalan Research InstitutesFrom La Vanguardia, November 17th 2010: |
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21/04/2010 - First Source discovered with MAGIC IIFirst source discovered with MAGIC-IIThe MAGIC Collaboration reports the discovery of VHE gamma-ray emission from the new source MAGIC J0317+413. The source was in the field of view of the MAGIC telescopes between October 2009 and February 2010. The emission position is consistent with the head-tail radio galaxy IC310 (z=0.0189) located in the outer region of the Perseus cluster of galaxies. |
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01/04/2010 - First W boson candidate event in ATLASFirst W boson candidate in ATLASFirst W boson candidate event in ATLAS First candidate for an event with a W boson decaying to muon + neutrino seen in 7 TeV collision data. |
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24/02/2010 - First Super-K beam neutrino candidateSuper-Kamiokande observes the first beam neutrino event candidate.Physicists from the Japanese-led multi-national T2K neutrino collaboration announce on February 24th that he first beam neutrino event candidate has been observed. It is a clear 3-ring Fully Contained event in the fiducial volume. |
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13/01/2010 - European Research Council awardThe European Research Council awarded an Advanced Grant to the project "Voxel Imaging PET Pathfinder" presented in 2009 by IFAE Research Professor Mokhtar Chmeissani.The project's goal is to design and test a prototype of a novel, potentially revolutionary apparatus for Positron Emission Tomography, optimized for brain imaging. |
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15/12/2009 - First neutrinos at the T2K on-axis near detectorT2K sees the first neutrinos at the on-axis near detectorPhysicists from the Japanese-led multi-national T2K neutrino collaboration announced on November 24th that over the weekend they detected the first events generated by their newly built neutrino beam at the J-PARC accelerator laboratoy in Tokai, Japan. |
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03/12/2009 - First Collision Event in ATLASFirst Collision Event in ATLASATLAS recorded on Monday, November 23rd, the first few hundred candidate collision events. Below a picture of the first selected candidate event from the online event scanning. |
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