Nuclear Physics research in Spain José Benlliure Universidad of Santiago de Compostela Ministerio...

Nuclear Physics research in Spain

José BenlliureUniversidad of Santiago de Compostela

Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación

Present: Human resources, infrastructures and coordination Main research topics

Future: Spanish participation in FAIR Other longer-term projects

IFIC-CSIC

UAB UB UPC

USE CNAUHU

UGR

USC-IGFAE

USALUAM UCM

CIEMAT

IEM-CSIC

UVUEX

UCA

Human resources

José Benlliure, MICINN-IN2P3 meeting

21 research groups members of the Spanish National Research Network for Nuclear Physics * - 14 universities, 2 institutes from CSIC** and CIEMAT*** - 10 groups with experimental activity - 9 groups with theoretical activity - 2 groups oriented to applications

154 researchers, 64 students and 16 technicians **** - in experimental physics 42% - in theoretical physics 46% - in applied physics 12%

53 Spanish researchers in other countries - 25 doctors and 28 PhD students

* http://www.fnuc.es** CSIC: Spanish National Research Council*** CIEMAT: Research Center for Energy, Environment and Technology**** NuNET survey on resources in Nuclear Physics in 2007

Encuentros de Física Nuclear ‘06

Madrid, January 2009Spanish Nuclear Physics meeting ’08

Infrastructures

Equipment for detector R&D - Huelva, Madrid, Santiago and Valencia - Silicon detectors, scintillating crystals, Ge detectors and neutron detectors

Accelerators - 5 MV tandem at Madrid - 3 MV tandem at Sevilla

Encuentros de Física Nuclear ‘06

José Benlliure, MICINN-IN2P3 meeting Madrid, January 2009

Nuclear Physics research in numbers

Nuclear structure, reactions and astrophysics - 9 experimental groups and 3 theoretical groups

Hadron physics - 1 experimental group and 6 theoretical

Scientific production (2006 numbers) - 288 papers - 15 PhDs

Funding (2006 numbers)* - National Program for Particle Physics (MICINN): ~ 2.5 M€ - UE projects: ~ 0.4 ME - regional governments: ~ 0.2 M€ - other fixed term personnel: ~ 2.5 M€

* Permanent staff and infrastructure running costs not included


Participation in international collaborations

CERN - Isolde and nTOF

GSI - FRS-RISING, Aladin-Land, Hades

GANIL - MAYA, Tiara, proton emiters, …

ECT*

Others - Louvain-la-Neuve - Legnaro - Jyvaskyla - JLAB

GSICERN (ISOLDE, NTOF)

GANIL

LNL

JYFL

JLAB

CRC


Organization and management


Ministry of Science and Innovation

National Programs for Basic ResearchNational Program for Particle Physics

Particle Physics Astro-particle Physics TheoryNuclear Physics

National Research Network on Nuclear PhysicsFNUC

Coordinator+scientific secretaryCoordination committee

21 research groups

National Institute for Particle, Astro-particle and Nuclear PhysicsCPAN

Participation in International Bodies and Programs


Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee NuPECC

Nuclear Physics Board (European Physical Society)

ERANET NuPNET

FP5 EU projects

- HINDAS, nTOF, R3B

FP6 EU projects

- EUROTRANS, EURONS, EURISOL-DS, HadronPhysics

FP7 EU projects

- FAIR preparatory phase, Spiral preparatory phase, HadronPhysics2

Outreach and training activities

Nuclear Physics section at the Spanish Physical Society - outreach and education

Nuclear Physics outrearch material - PANSI, contacts with media, ….

Training activities - Nuclear Physics doctoral school (several universities, quality label) - Euroschool on exotic beams - GSI summer school

Nuclear Physics doctoral school ’07


Spanish participation in FAIR

- CIEMAT- IEM (CSIC)- IFIC (CSIC)- IMAFF (CSIC)- Universidad Autónoma de Madrid- Universidad de Castilla la Mancha- Universidad Complutense de Madrid- Universidad de Granada- Universidad de Huelva- UNED- Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña- Universidad Politécnica de Valencia- Universidad de Salamanca- Universidad de Santiago de Compostela- Universidad de Sevilla- Universidad de Valencia

NUSTAR: - R3B, HISPEC/DESPEC, EXL/ELISe, MATS - 11 research groups

Hadron physics: PANDA - 1 research group

Atomic and plasma physics - SPARC, HEDgeHOB - 4 research groups

100 m

NUSTAR

PANDA

Atomicphysics

Plasmaphysics

- Spain officially participates in FAIR with a 2% contribution

- All Spanish experimental groups participate in FAIR experiments

- We participate only in 7 FAIR experiments (concentration of resources

to increase visibility)


Spanish participation in FAIR: facility

workpackage: superferric multiplets of the Super-FRS (CIEMAT) - Spain and France will equally contribute to this workpackage (~ 40 M€) - A consortium with France (CEA/CNRS) is foreseen

Superferric magnet prototypes for XFEL


experiment contribution participants appro. cost*

HISPEC/DESPEC

silicon ball: HYDEgamma detectorsneutron detectors

UHU, USEIFIC, UAM, USALCIEMAT, UPC

3.6 M€

R3Bgamma calorimeterToF-wall (RPCs)

IEM, USCUSC, UVI

3.0 M€

EXL/ELISe e- spectrometer UCM, UGR 0.5 M€

MATS preparation trap UHU 0.2 M€

PANDA electromag. calorimeter IFIC 1.0 M€

NUSTAR and hadron physics experiments

Spanish participation in FAIR: experiments

* Final cost of contributions still under discussion


Strategic plan for Nuclear Physics 2008-2012


Maintain the present scientific programs at existing international collaborations: - CERN (Isolde, nTOF), GSI (FRS-RISING, Aladin-Land), GANIL, …

R&D and construction of instrumentation for FAIR experiments - R3B, HISPEC/DESPEC, Elise, MATS

Use of the existing small facities in Spain for detector R&D or complementary experiments to the ones performed at large international facilities

Future projects


The Spanish Network for Nuclear Physics Research (FNUC) is presently ellaborating a mid-term road-map, some future projects under discussion are:

Spiral 2: - The Spanish nuclear physics community has expressed a scientific interest - Synergies on detector R&D between FAIR and Spiral 2 are identified - Other scientific communities in Spain have technological interests: neutron physics (ESS-Bilbao), fusion (CIEMAT)

Underground nuclear astrophysics experiment at LSC (Canfranc) - Included in the LSC strategic plan - On-going contacts with INFN and the LUNA collaboration - Workshop on the scientific oportunities for a nuclear-astrophysics experiement at LSC next February at Barcelona

AGATA

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Summary

We are a relatively small community with modest resources and few infrastructures, but we are quite active in most of the existing facilities in Europe and our resources are progressively increasing

Our research interests concentrate around NUSTAR physics, with a lack of activity in experimental hadron physics

Our short-term future is dominated by FAIR and probably some smaller projects around national infrastructures

Our mid-term road-map is presently under discussion: Spiral 2, LSC, AGATA, …


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