Recent achievements and future challenges of the Spanish research in experimental Nuclear Physics

Sevilla, October 5, 2012

José Benlliure

Universidad of Santiago de Compostela

José Benlliure Layout  Experimental nuclear physics in Spain  Recent physics highlights  Research infrastructures present and future  Instrumentation  Conclusions 75 th NuPECC meeting, Sevilla, October 2012

Experimental nuclear physics in Spain Who and where

USC

3 /6

IEM

2 /5 5 /10

UV/IFIC

1995 José Benlliure 75 th NuPECC meeting, Sevilla, October 2012

Experimental nuclear physics in Spain Who and where 11 groups: 8 universities and 3 research public bodies (CSIC, CIEMAT, CNA) ~120 researchers ~130 publications/year ~ 6-8 PhD/year

USC UVI

6 /22

USA

1 /3

IEM UCM CIEMAT

10 /26 5 /18

IFIC

2010 2 /4

UPC

?

2 /8 2 /4

UHU CNA

1 /3

UGR

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Experimental nuclear physics in Spain Organization astroparticles high energy physics theory José Benlliure + ….

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Experimental nuclear physics in Spain Funding* Institutional funding (2007-2011): ~ 17200 k€/year Project funding (2007-2011): ~ 3700 k€/year Project funding * all Nuclear Physics José Benlliure 75 th NuPECC meeting, Sevilla, October 2012

Experimental Nuclear Physics in Spain Research activities* Phases of strongly interacting matter 10% mostly theory Hadron physics Nuclear structure and dynamics 25% mostly theory 50% experiments and theory Nuclear astrophysics 10% experiments and theory Fundamental interactions * all Nuclear Physics José Benlliure 5% experiments and theory 75 th NuPECC meeting, Sevilla, October 2012

Experimental Nuclear Physics in Spain Roadmap The participation in some of the NUSTAR experiments at FAIR (R3B, HISPEC, DESPEC, MATS and ELISe) is a priority for the Spanish Nuclear Physics community This community will make use of many of the present existing facilities (Isolde, nTOF, GANIL,..) and plans to use their future upgrades (HI-Isolde, nTOF2, Spiral2) The use of small scale national facilities will be fostered (CNA, CMAM, LSC) José Benlliure

1990 1995 2000 Isolde 2005 GANIL GSI nTOF 1 2010 2015 2020 HI-Isolde 2025 Spiral 2 FAIR nTOF 2

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Recent physics highlights Nuclear structure and dynamics Understanding the nuclear many-body system investigating ground-state propertires and low-lying excited states in nuclei far from stability José Benlliure 75 th NuPECC meeting, Sevilla, October 2012

Recent physics highlights Nuclear structure and dynamics Understanding the nuclear many-body system investigating ground-state propertires and low-lying excited states in nuclei far from stability José Benlliure 75 th NuPECC meeting, Sevilla, October 2012

Recent physics highlights Nuclear structure and dynamics Understanding the nuclear many-body system investigating ground-state propertires and low-lying excited states in nuclei far from stability José Benlliure 75 th NuPECC meeting, Sevilla, October 2012

Recent physics highlights Nuclear structure and dynamics Understanding the nuclear many-body system investigating ground-state propertires and low-lying excited states in nuclei far from stability José Benlliure 75 th NuPECC meeting, Sevilla, October 2012

Recent physics highlights Nuclear Astrophysics Nuclei far from stability tell us about the origin of the elements in the Universe

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process nova

José Benlliure

Big bang nucleosynthesis r process supernova

75 th NuPECC meeting, Sevilla, October 2012

Recent physics highlights Nuclear Astrophysics Nuclei far from stability tell us about the origin of the elements in the Universe

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process nova

José Benlliure

Big bang nucleosynthesis r process supernova

75 th NuPECC meeting, Sevilla, October 2012

Recent physics highlights Nuclear Astrophysics Nuclei far from stability tell us about the origin of the elements in the Universe

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process nova

José Benlliure

Big bang nucleosynthesis r process supernova

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Recent physics highlights Recent or ongoing experiments  b -half-lives and delay neutron emission in heavy neutron-rich nuclei relevant for the stellar nucleo-synthesis r-process

USC, IFIC

(RISING/PresPEC GSI)  Single-particle structure of light nuclei at the drip-lines

USC

(ALADIN/LAND GSI)  Halo effects in 11 Li scattering

UHU, IEM

(TRIUMF)

FRS/PreSPEC ALADIN/LAND

 First AGATA campaigns

IFIC, IEM

(Legnaro, GSI)  Decay studies

IFIC, CIEMAT

(Jyvaskyka, Isolde)  Spectroscopy of 7 H

USC

(GANIL)  ……..

AGATA

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Research infrastructures present and future Large scale international facilities Scientific production (2007-2011) GSI 38% nTOF 12% ISOLDE 11% GANIL 7% Legnaro 12% others 20%

JYFL JLAB TRIUMF GANIL GSI ISOLDE nTOF LNL CMAM CNA

José Benlliure

RIKEN

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Research infrastructures present and future National facilities The most precise measurement of the 8 Li half live Breakout to heavier BBN nuclei

X. Flechard with D. Rodríguez et al., PRC (2010) U. Granada, CNA

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Research infrastructures present and future National facilities Excited states in 12 C via 11 B( 3 He,d) 12 C* and 10 B( 3 He,p) 12 C* p-p chain reaction 4 He( 3 He, g ) 7 Be Unbound states in 16 O for 12 C( 4 He, g ) 16 O using 19 F(p, 4 He) 16 O José Benlliure 75 th NuPECC meeting, Sevilla, October 2012

Research infrastructures present and future National facilities LSC Laboratorio Subterraneo de Canfranc Proposal for a dedicated hall at LSC for nuclear astrophysics experiments with a commercial 3 MV accelerator - expression of interest submitted 2009 - letter of intend submitted 2012 UCM, UPC, IFIC, USC José Benlliure 75 th NuPECC meeting, Sevilla, October 2012

Research infrastructures present and future Large scale international facilities

JYFL

José Benlliure

JLAB TRIUMF CMAM CNA GANIL GSI ISOLDE nTOF LNL RIKEN

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Research infrastructures present and future Spanish participation in FAIR (NUSTAR collaboration) 6 experiments: R3B, DESPEC, HISPEC, MATS, ELISe, EXL

DESPEC HISPEC MATS

CIEMAT, IFIC, UCM, UPC IEM, IFIC, UHU, USA, USE UGR

ELISe

UCM José Benlliure

NUSTAR R3B

IEM, USC, UVI 75 th NuPECC meeting, Sevilla, October 2012

Instrumentation Pre-FAIR expertise - Gamma spectroscopy (IFIC,IEM) Use and simulation of single and multiple germanium detectors - Total absorption spectrometry (IFIC) NaI crystal 38x38 cm (12 crystals) - Segmented silicon detectors (IEM) Ultra-thin window SSD detectors José Benlliure Segmented BaF 2 (12 crystals) detector 75 th NuPECC meeting, Sevilla, October 2012

Instrumentation for FAIR Reactions with Relativistic Radioactive Beams R 3 B nuclear structure and astophysics: direct reactions - reaction mechamisms: fission, fragmentation - equation of state for asymmetric matter Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC Universidad de Santiago de Compostela Universidad de Vigo José Benlliure 75 th NuPECC meeting, Sevilla, October 2012

Instrumentation for FAIR Reactions with Relativistic Radioactive Beams R 3 B nuclear structure and astophysics: direct reactions - reaction mechamisms: fission, fragmentation - equation of state for asymmetric matter Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC Universidad de Santiago de Compostela Universidad de Vigo José Benlliure 75 th NuPECC meeting, Sevilla, October 2012

Instrumentation for FAIR DEcay SPECtroscopy (DESPEC) - decay processes of exotic nuclei b -delay spectroscopy using gammas, protons or neutrons - nuclear electromagnetic moments CIEMAT - Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC Instituto de Física Corpuscular, CSIC Universidad Complutense de Madrid Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña José Benlliure

DESPEC

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Instrumentation for FAIR DEcay SPECtroscopy (DESPEC) A variable-geometry setup José Benlliure 75 th NuPECC meeting, Sevilla, October 2012

Instrumentation for FAIR DEcay SPECtroscopy (DESPEC) A variable-geometry setup José Benlliure 75 th NuPECC meeting, Sevilla, October 2012

Instrumentation for FAIR DEcay SPECtroscopy (DESPEC) A variable-geometry setup José Benlliure 75 th NuPECC meeting, Sevilla, October 2012

Instrumentation for FAIR DEcay SPECtroscopy (DESPEC) A variable-geometry setup José Benlliure 75 th NuPECC meeting, Sevilla, October 2012

Instrumentation for FAIR DEcay SPECtroscopy (DESPEC) A variable-geometry setup José Benlliure 75 th NuPECC meeting, Sevilla, October 2012

Instrumentation for FAIR High-resolution In-flight SPECtroscopy (HISPEC) Direct reactions at low energies 5-20 MeV High-spin physics Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC Instituto de Física Corpuscular, CSIC Universidad de Huelva Universidad de Sevilla José Benlliure

HISPEC

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Instrumentation for FAIR High-resolution In-flight SPECtroscopy (HISPEC) Direct reactions at low energies 5-20 MeV High-spin physics Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC Instituto de Física Corpuscular, CSIC Universidad de Huelva Universidad de Sevilla José Benlliure

HISPEC

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Instrumentation for FAIR Measurement of short-lived nuclei using Advanced Trap Systems (MATS) Ground state properties of nuclei far from stability Universidad de Granada

MATS

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Instrumentation for AGATA Spanish participation in AGATA IFIC, IEM, USAL Spanish contribution: 1 triple cluster (phase 1) Contribution to the sampling Front-End electronics development José Benlliure New scaning table technologies for detector characterization Leadership in several experiments for the next AGATA/PRESPEC campaign at GSI 75 th NuPECC meeting, Sevilla, October 2012

Instrumentation A quantum sensor for mass measurements of superheavy elements D. Rodriguez, U. Granada A single-ion non destructive technique providing a resolution d m/m ~ 10 -11

Ca +

ERC-2011-StG José Benlliure - laser cooling of a reference Ca + ion - energy coupling between the investigated ion and the cooled Ca+ ion - measurement of the transferred energy with the laser The laboratory is being installed at the University of Granada 75 th NuPECC meeting, Sevilla, October 2012

Conclusions     Critical mass: spectacular growth during the last decade Coordination: roadmap Scientific impact International visibility   Excesive specialization (nuclear structure and reactions) Absence of activities on acceleration technologies   New large scale facilities under construction worldwide Technological applications  Unfavorable economical situation José Benlliure 75 th NuPECC meeting, Sevilla, October 2012