High-level education and researchon Radiological and Nuclear Sciences

in the University of Seville

RAFAEL GARCIA-TENORIO

Cherne Workshop 2013 Salamanca, June 2013

UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLA

More than 500 years of history, 32 centers, 160 Departments

60 thousand students

4500 teachers/researchers

Faculty OF PHYSICS

4 Departments, 17 research groups, 700 students (under and post-graduates)

STUDIES

Graduation in Physics

Graduation in Material Sciences

Master in Nuclear Physics

Master in Medical Physics

PhD Programme in Nuclear Physics

MASTER IN NUCLEAR PHYSICS

Interuniversity Master

Universidades de Sevilla, Barcelona, Autónoma de Madrid, Salamanca, Complutense de Madrid, y Granada

Instituto Estructura de la Materia, Instituto Fisica CorpuscularCIEMAT

Main subjectsMain subjects

Nuclear PhysicsRadiology

Environmental Radioactivity, Low-level CountingMultielemental analysis through Nuclear Techniques

Nuclear dating TechniquesNuclear Energy

PhD Programme in NUCLEAR PHYSICS

Interuniversity Programme

Universidades de Sevilla, Barcelona, Autónoma de Madrid, Santiago, Huelva, Salamanca, Complutense de Madrid, y Granada

Instituto Estructura de la Materia, Instituto Fisica CorpuscularCIEMAT

Research Lines

Nuclear EstruvtureNuclear Reactions

Experimental Nuclear PhysicsApplied Nuclear Physics

Hadrionic Physics

The Centro Nacional

de Aceleradores

OUR SINGULARITY

Centro Nacional de Aceleradores

• Established as an agreement between the University of Sevilla, Junta de Andalucia and C.S.I.C. in 1997.

• A National facility open to national and international collaboration with:

- Other Universities and Health Care Centers (public, private).- Public Research Institutes.- Private companies.

A good environment for the training od scientists and technicians

ISO 27000 and ISO 9001 Certifications

CNA building, Parque Tecnológico Cartuja 93 (former place of Australian Pavillion during World Exposition 1992))

CNA Personnel (Sept. 2012)

• Staff (permanent, PhD): 9• Doctors (temp): 12• Post-Graduates (temp): 9• Administration: 3• Technicians: 9

• Total: 42

CNA Personnel

Institutional Agreements

-IAEA Collaboration Centre

-Collaboration with ENRESA (National Company in charge of the Nuclear Waste Mangement in Spain)

- Collaboration with CIEMAT.

- Collaboration with Virgen del Rocio Hospital

- Collaboration with ALTER Co. (irrdiation of aerospatial components)

- Collaboration with CSN (Spanish Nuclear Safety Council)

OPAC “Optimization of particle accelerators”Marie Curie ITN; partners: 10 institutions.

European Project

Scientific Production

Summary 2007-2008 2009-2010

Finnanced Projects

35 46

Artícles ISI 68 107

Congress Contributions

69 99

Ph D Tesis + Master Works

2+4 2+6

CNA General Information

2008 2012 Increment

Budget 1130 k€ 1172k€ 4%

Personnel 33 42 27%

Permanent Staff 5 10 100%

Turnover 65 k€ 128 k€ (2011)

97%

Big Installations 3 5+1 100%

Scientific Objectives of CNA

• A Centre of Reference in material analysis through the application of IBA techniques.

• A Centre of Reference in AMS and in 14C dating• A Centre of Reference in the development of

radiation detectors instrumentation. • A Centre of Reference in Medical Image and in

Radiopharmaceutical syntheses.• A Centre of Reference in the development and

application of irradiation tests

To be….

A Centre of Reference in material analysis through the application of IBA techniques.

Spintronics applications

Study of defects after ion implantation of transition metals (Ni) in SiC monocristals for application in spin electronics

Collaboration: ICMM, MFA (Budapest); INSP (Paris); UNAM (Mexico)Ref: PSSc 5(2008)1374; NIMB 267(2009)1097

Archaeometry studies using Archaeometry studies using external beamexternal beam

Large and non suitable for vacuum samples Large and non suitable for vacuum samples can be analyzed with the external beamcan be analyzed with the external beam

Micro-probe μ-PIXE

Hot-particle Analysis

Pu (L)

Pu (L)

U (L)

U (L)

A15 Scan 100x100 m2

HP3 Scan 75x75 m2

Pu and U concentration maps in hot particles with origin in the Palomares nuclear accident. Both elements are confined inside the particle.

A Centre of Reference in AMS and in 14C dating

14C: Bomb pulse effect in Mexico

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NH zone 2 (Hua and Barbetti, 2004)

NH zone 3 (Hua and Barbetti, 2004)

Niwot Rich, Colorado, clean air(Turnbull et al., 2007)

Jungfraujoch, clean air (Levin andKromer, 2004)

Effect of Nuclear release of 129I in the Baltic and North Sea

J. Environ. Radioact., 1992, 15, 231

Algae from the coast of Sweden in the North and the Baltic Sea

North Sea is much more affected by the releases of Sellafield and La Hague. No exchange with the Baltic Sea.

Plutonium isotopes in air filter samples(Seville)

Seasonal trend (high values in summer).

They were correlated with Saharan Dust Intrusion

A Centre of Reference in the development of radiation detectors instrumentation

Tracking detectors

(CNA-Saclay-GANIL) Collaboration

Characterization of a strip Si detector for Radiotherapy dosis measurement

U.Sevilla-CNA-INABENSA-HUVM-ESII

Si strip detector inside a cilindrical phantom

Measurement with a clinical electron accelerator

PATENT SUBMITTED

Neutron line @ CNA: astrophysics

Performed two different activations that should correspond to measure the Maxwellian Average Cross Section (MACS) of 181Ta at kT=30 keV and kT=55 keV by using MACS of Au as reference.

The MACS is the fundamental ingredient for the calculation of the reaction rates of the elements with A>56 in the Universe.

EXPERIMENTAL SETUP AT CNAChamber designed, constructed and tested at LNL-INFN.Copper backing developed at Seville. Water cooling flowing around. Lithium foil.

A Centre of Reference in Medical Image and in Radiopharmaceutical syntheses.

Some molecules prepared at CNA

• Na[18F]F for osseous and renal studies

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OODMTrNos

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NH

O

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OH

F18

1) [18F]F/CH3CN

2) HCl

[18F]FLT

[18F]FLT as a cellular growth marker to obtain images for cancer diagnosis

For pre-clinic research the following radio-pharmaceuticals are produced in CNA: FLT, FMISO, BF4, NaF y 11C-metionina

Cerebral Metabolism: Hipoxia-Ischemia

• Brain is pressed by a Fogarty balloon, and effects are monitored with FDG-PET and F-MISO images

Project developed in collaboration with the Pediatric Neurosurgery Unit of the Hospital Virgen del Rocío.

Fogarty balloon

PtiO2 sensor

A Centre of Reference in the development and application of irradiations tests

Radiation hardness in fibre optics sensors Radiation hardness in fibre optics sensors used in particle-physics experimentsused in particle-physics experiments

In a first experiment it was determined the existence of a relation between the type of coating of the sensor and its response under irradiation of protons.

In un second experiment it has been analyzed the effect of the protonic radiation in the response of nude sensors (withgout coating).

(Detectors from “Large Hadron Collider”-(Detectors from “Large Hadron Collider”-CERN)CERN)

Collaboration IFCA - CNA

Response of luminiscent materials to ionic radiation

Reactors of Losses (escaping)

Fusion of fast ions

Diagnosis Luminiscence in

scintillators (ZnS(Ag))

Luminosity Afterglow

Detectors for plasma in ITER

Creation of a Service for irradiation of aeroespatial components

Irradiation of electronic circuits(total dose and SEE)

Irradiation of solar cells