Nuclear Physics research in Spain José Benlliure Universidad 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 CNA UHU UGR USC-IGFAE USAL UAM UCM CIEMAT IEM-CSIC UV UEX 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 * ** 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 2009 Spanish 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) 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 José Benlliure, MICINN-IN2P3 meeting Madrid, January 2009

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 GSI CERN (ISOLDE, NTOF) GANIL LNL JYFL JLAB CRC José Benlliure, MICINN-IN2P3 meeting Madrid, January 2009

Organization and management José Benlliure, MICINN-IN2P3 meeting Madrid, January 2009 Ministry of Science and Innovation National Programs for Basic Research National Program for Particle Physics Particle PhysicsAstro-particle PhysicsTheoryNuclear Physics National Research Network on Nuclear Physics FNUC Coordinator+scientific secretary Coordination committee 21 research groups National Institute for Particle, Astro-particle and Nuclear Physics CPAN

Participation in International Bodies and Programs José Benlliure, MICINN-IN2P3 meeting Madrid, January 2009 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 José Benlliure, MICINN-IN2P3 meeting Madrid, January 2009

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 Atomic physics Plasma physics - 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) José Benlliure, MICINN-IN2P3 meeting Madrid, January 2009

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 José Benlliure, MICINN-IN2P3 meeting Madrid, January 2009

experimentcontributionparticipantsappro. cost* HISPEC/DESPEC silicon ball: HYDE gamma detectors neutron detectors UHU, USE IFIC, UAM, USAL CIEMAT, UPC 3.6 M€ R3B gamma calorimeter ToF-wall (RPCs) IEM, USC USC, UVI 3.0 M€ EXL/ELISe e - spectrometerUCM, UGR0.5 M€ MATS preparation trapUHU0.2 M€ PANDA electromag. calorimeterIFIC1.0 M€ NUSTAR and hadron physics experiments Spanish participation in FAIR: experiments * Final cost of contributions still under discussion José Benlliure, MICINN-IN2P3 meeting Madrid, January 2009

Strategic plan for Nuclear Physics José Benlliure, MICINN-IN2P3 meeting Madrid, January 2009 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 José Benlliure, MICINN-IN2P3 meeting Madrid, January 2009 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 ……

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, … José Benlliure, MICINN-IN2P3 meeting Madrid, January 2009