IMB-CNM Talks: An overview of the Centro Nacional de Aceleradores (CNA)
By Adrián García Osuna (CNA).
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Abstract
The Centro Nacional de Aceleradores (CNA) is a joint centre of the University of Seville, the Andalusian Regional Government and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) located in the Cartuja 93 Science and Technology Park on the Isla de la Cartuja, in Seville, Spain. Since it was first put into operation in 1998, the CNA has been open to the scientific community and it is considered a unique scientific-technical facility (ICTS). For more than two decades, the CNA has been growing steadily. The set of accelerators at this centre makes it unique in Spain, and research and services are carried out here, including analysis of materials, analysis and characterisation of electronic devices and detectors, basic experimental nuclear physics, archaeometry, accelerated mass spectrometry, nuclear physics applied to medical purposes, fusion research, sample irradiations, carbon dating, etc.
In this talk I will give an overview of the work of the CNA and the facilities and equipment needed to carry out this work.
About Adrián García
Adrián García Osuna was born in Seville, Spain, on 1993. He studied Physics at the University of Seville and, later, he studied the Inter-University Master's Degree in Nuclear Physics taught jointly by the US, UCM, UAM, UB, UGR and USAL. In 2020, his master’s Thesis ''Study of the radiation hardness of silicon diodes using particle accelerators'' earned him first prize in the ''Best Master's thesis award'' given annually by the Spanish Nuclear Society. In April 2019, he started working at the Centro Nacional de Aceleradores in Seville, Spain. At this Centre, he is also currently carrying out his doctoral studies. His line of research is focused on the use of the IBIC technique to study semiconductor radiation detectors and the effects of radiation on materials. Two of its projects are carried out in collaboration with the CNM: development and study of SiC detectors for fusion applications and study of LGAD detectors for timing measurements in the future HL-LHC.