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Nuclear Physics from the Lab to Improve People’s Health

The study of the structure of atomic nuclei, where almost all the mass that composes matter is found, has improved the understanding of the interactions and reactions that take place inside them.

Within this area, the IGFAE team carries out basic research in reference facilities. This is the case of FAIR (Germany), which in the coming years will become the largest nuclear physics laboratory in the world. There, the Institute’s team is present in the R3B experiment, with an important role in the development of detectors such as CALIFA. Our team also has a notable presence in collaborations such as FRIB (USA) or GANIL (France).

In Santiago de Compostela, IGFAE staff also develop projects at the Laser Acceleration and Applications Laboratory (L2A2), a USC facility specialised in laser-plasma acceleration. In this line, there is a constant work channel around social applications in the field of natural radioactivity, flash radiotherapy and proton therapy.

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2025-04-10
Thesis

Thesis
2025-04-10
Study of 16O dissociation through alpha scattering in inverse kinematics with Active Target Time Projection Chamber (AT-TPC)
2025-02-10
Article

Article
2025-02-10
Precise measurement of nuclear interaction cross sections towards neutron-skin determination with R3B

1056, 5 (2025)

ARXIV

2878173

JCAP

Ponnath, L. ... Alvarez-Pol, H., Ayyad-Limonge, Y., Benlliure, J., Caamano, M., Cabanelas, P., Cortina-Gil, D., Feijoo, M., Rodriguez-Sanchez, J.L. et al.

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Ponnath, L., Aumann, T., Bertulani, C.A., Gernhauser, R., Almusidi, T., Alvarez-Pol, H., Atar, L., Atkins, L., Ayyad, Y., Benlliure, J., Boretzky, K., Borge, M.J.G., Bott, L.T., Bruni, G., Bruckner, B., Cabanelas, P., Caesar, C., Casarejos, E., Cederkall, J., Corsi, A., Cortina-Gil, D., Duenas, J.A., Duer, M., Elekes, Z., Escribano Rodriguez, S., Falduto, A., Feijoo, M., Feijoo Fontan, M., Fonseca, L.M., Frotscher, A., Galaviz, D., Galiana, E., Garcia-Jimenez, G., Gasparic, I., Geraci, E.I., Gillibert, A., Gnoffo, B., Gonzalez Caamano, D., Grana Gonzalez, A., Gobel, K., Hartig, A.-L., Heil, M., Heinz, A., Hensel, T., Holl, M., Horvat, A., Jedele, A., Jelavic Malenica, D., Jenegger, T., Johansson, H.T., Jonson, B., Kalantar-Nayestanaki, N., Kelic-Heil, A., Kiselev, O.A., Klenze, P., Kresan, D., Kroll, T., Kudaibergenova, E., Kurtulgil, D., Korper, D., Labiche, M., Langer, C., Lihtar, I., Litvinov, Yu.A., Loher, B., Mayer, J., Mozumdar, N., Murillo Morales, S., Nacher, E., Nilsson, T., Obertelli, A., Panin, V., Park, J., Paschalis, S., Perea, A., Petri, M., Pirrone, S., Pohl, T., Reifarth, R., Rhee, H.-B., Rodriguez-Sanchez, J.L., Rose, L., Rossi, D.M., Russotto, P., Savran, D., Scheit, H., Simon, H., Storck-Dutine, S., Stott, A.M., Sun, Y., Surder, C., Taniuchi, R., Tengblad, O., Teubig, P., Trache, L., Trimarchi, M., Tornqvist, H.T., Wagner, V., Wamers, F.

2025-01-10
Article

Article
2025-01-10
Near-Threshold Dipole Strength in Be 10 with Isoscalar Character

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134(2025), 134, (2025)

JCAP

Ayyad-Limonge, Y. et al.

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Chen J., Ayyad Y., Bazin D., Mittig W., Serikow M.Z., Keeley N., Wang S.M., Zhou B., Zamora J.C., Beceiro-Novo S., Cortesi M., Denudt M., Heinitz S., Giraud S., Gueye P., Hoffman C.R., Kay B.P., Maugeri E.A., Monteagudo B.G., Li H., Liu W.P., Munoz A., Ndayisabye F., Pereira J., Rijal N., Santamaria C., Schumann D., Watwood N., Votta G., Yin P., Yuan C.X., Zhang Y.N.

2025-01-01
Article

Article
2025-01-01
Direct reactions with the AT-TPC

13, (2025)

JCAP

Bazin, Daniel ... Ayyad-Limonge, Y. et al.

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Ayyad Y., Bazin D., Bonaiti F., Chen J., Li X., Anthony A., Avila M., Beceiro-Novo S., Bhatt K., Cabo C., Furuno T., Guimaraes V., Hall-Smith A., Hunt C., Jayatissa H., Kawabata T., Kumi H., Lopez-Gonzalez J.M., Lois-Fuentes J., Macchiavelli A., McCann G., Muller-Gatermann C., Munoz-Ramos A., Mittig W., Olaizola B., Rahman Z., Regueira D., Rufino J., Sakajo S., Santamaria C., Serikow M.Z., Tang T., Tolstukhin I., Turi N., Watwood N., Zamora J.

2024-12-28
Article

Article
2024-12-28
Measurement of the Yb176(n,γ) cross section at the n_TOF facility at CERN

110, 16 (2024)

ARXIV

2862937

JCAP

Garcia Infantes, F. ... Caamano, M., Duran, I., Fernandez-Dominguez, B. et al.

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Garcia-Infantes, F., Praena, J., Casanovas-Hoste, A., Henkelmann, R., Koster, U., Aberle, O., Alcayne, V., Altieri, S., Amaducci, S., Es-Sghir, H. Amar, Andrzejewski, J., Babiano-Suarez, V., Bacak, M., Balibrea-Correa, J., Bennett, S., Bernardes, A.P., Berthoumieux, E., Bosnar, D., Busso, M., Caamano, M., Calvino, F., Calviani, M., Cano-Ott, D., Castelluccio, D.M., Cerutti, F., Cescutti, G., Chasapoglou, S., Chiaveri, E., Colombetti, P., Colonna, N., Camprini, P. Console, Cortes, G., Cortes-Giraldo, M.A., Cosentino, L., Cristallo, S., Di Castro, M., Diacono, D., Diakaki, M., Dietz, M., Domingo-Pardo, C., Dressler, R., Dupont, E., Duran, I., Eleme, Z., Fargier, S., Fernandez-Dominguez, B., Finocchiaro, P., Fiore, S., Furman, V., Gawlik-Ramiega, A., Gervino, G., Gilardoni, S., Gonzalez-Romero, E., Guerrero, C., Gunsing, F., Gustavino, C., Heyse, J., Jenkins, D.G., Jericha, E., Junghans, A., Kadi, Y., Katabuchi, T., Knapova, I., Kokkoris, M., Kopatch, Y., Krticka, M., Kurtulgil, D., Ladarescu, I., Lederer-Woods, C., Lerendegui-Marco, J., Lerner, G., Manna, A., Martinez, T., Martinez-Canada, M., Masi, A., Massimi, C., Mastinu, P., Mastromarco, M., Matteucci, F., Maugeri, E.A., Mazzone, A., Mendoza, E., Mengoni, A., Michalopoulou, V., Milazzo, P.M., Mucciola, R., Murtas, F., Gonzalez, E. Musacchio, Musumarra, A., Negret, A., Oprea, A., Perez-Maroto, P., Patronis, N., Pavon-Rodriguez, J.A., Pellegriti, M.G., Perkowski, J., Petrone, C., Piersanti, L., Pirovano, E., Pomp, S., Porras, I., Protti, N., Quesada, J.M., Rauscher, T., Reifarth, R., Rochman, D., Romanets, Y., Romano, F., Rubbia, C., Sanchez-Caballero, A., Sabate-Gilarte, M., Schillebeeckx, P., Schumann, D., Sekhar, A., Smith, A.G., Sosnin, N.V., Spelta, M., Stamati, M.E., Tagliente, G., Tarifeno-Saldivia, A., Tarrio, D., Terranova, N., Torres-Sanchez, P., Urlass, S., Valenta, S., Variale, V., Vaz, P., Vescovi, D., Vlachoudis, V., Vlastou, R., Wallner, A., Woods, P.J., Wright, T., Zugec, P.

Projects

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2024-09-01
SA3_LACC

SA3_LACC
PID2023-152894OA-I00
Aceleradores láser de iones para aplicaciones en física nuclear - LIANA - GENERACIÓN DE CONOCIMIENTO 2023 - Proyectos investigación orientada

Principal investigator

Aarón José Alejo Alonso

Initial date

2024-09-01

Final date

2027-12-31

Agency

AEI - Agencia Estatal de Investigación

2023-06-23
SA3_NUCL

SA3_NUCL
2023-CL044
Deseño dun experimento para ver a influencia dos raios cósmicos na infraestrutura de computación cuántica, contrato susceptible de financiamento pola Unión Europea no marco do Eixo REACT UE do programa operativo FEDER Galicia 2014-2020, como parte da resposta da Unión Europea á pandemia da COVID-19

Principal investigator

Héctor Álvarez Pol

Initial date

2023-06-23

Final date

2023-09-22

2023-01-01
SA3_LACC

SA3_LACC
RYC2021-032654-I
Aceleración de partículas utilizando láseres de alta potencia para aplicaciones, particularmente centrada en la aceleración de iones y electrones, así como la generación de fuentes secundarias de neutrones.

Principal investigator

Aarón José Alejo Alonso

Initial date

2023-01-01

Final date

2023-12-31

2023-01-01
SA3_LACC

SA3_LACC
ED431F2023/21
CONSOLIDACIÓN E ESTRUTURACIÓN 2023 - Proxectos de Excelencia (liña emerxente) - Fuentes de neutrones basadas en aceleradores láser-plasma de iones

Principal investigator

Aarón José Alejo Alonso

Initial date

2023-01-01

Final date

2027-11-20

2022-12-01
SA3_NUCL

SA3_NUCL
PDC2022-133947-C21
DOI PET SPECT development based on scintillation detectors in phoswich configuration (GAGGPET) - Prueba de Concepto 2022

Principal investigator

María Dolores Cortina Gil

Initial date

2022-12-01

Final date

2024-11-30