Associacion Latino-Americana de Fisica Nuclear y Aplicaciones -

ALAFNA

Alinka Lépine-Szily(co-chair of ALAFNA)

Meeting NuPECC, Sevilla 08/18/2012

CHART OF SANTIAGOThe “Association of Latin American Nuclear Physics and Applications” (ALANFA) was formed in Santiago, Chile on Dec. 19, 2009, by representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela.

In Spanish is called “Asociación Latino Americana de Física Nuclear y Aplicaciones” ALAFNA In Portuguese is called “Associação Latino Americana de Física Nuclear e Aplicações” ALAFNA

Chairs of ALANFA: Andrés Kreiner (Argentina) Alinka Lépine-Szily (Brazil)

Steering Committee (SC) of ALAFNA is formed by the 15 original founders:

Ricardo Alarcon (Arizona State Univ., USA)Hugo Arellano (U. of Chile, Chile)Haydn Barros (U.Simon Bolivar, Venezuela)

Maria Ester Brandan (UNAM, Mexico) Roelof Bijker (UNAM, Mexico)Laszlo Sajo Bohus (U.Simon Bolivar, Venezuela)Fernando Cristancho (UNal, Colombia) Paulo Gomes (U. Fed. Fluminense, Brazil)Carlos Granja(Inst.Exp.Appl.Phys. Czech Tech.U. Czech

Rep.)Andrés Kreiner (Tandar, CNEA, Argentina) ChairAlinka Lépine-Szily (USP, Brazil) ChairRubens Lichtenthäler (USP, Brazil)Modesto Montoya (Inst. Per. Em. Nucl., Peru)Roberto Morales (U. of Chile, Chile)Alberto Pacheco (Tandar, CNEA, Argentina)

Objectives of ALAFNA To strengthen ties among the Latin American

Communities doing nuclear research and applications to foster collaborations and promotion of activities,

To educate the scientific community and the general public through the promotion of nuclear physics and the peaceful uses of nuclear technology,

To do periodic overall assessments of nuclear science in Latin America in the context of world wide activities, and

To discuss at a multi-national level future planning of nuclear science activities in Latin America

Role of the Steering Committee: -establishment of ALAFNA governance rules

-divulgation of ALAFNA in the scientific community

-divulgation of ALAFNA within governments of Latin America with interest in nuclear science and applications

ALAFNA homepage was installed on the website of the IX Latin American Symposium on Nuclear Physics and Applications” (LASNPA) july 18-22,2011, Quito, Ecuador

http://www.lasnpa-quito2011.org/alafna.org

07/22/2011: ALAFNA meeting after IX Latin AmericanSymposium on Nuclear Physics and Applications (LASNPA).

Agenda: Bylaws of ALAFNA

The bylaws of the Association were discussed by all presents.

Some conclusions: The association should be open to all nuclear scientists of the region (different from ANPHA or NUPECC)

The executive board should have 1 representative of each member country.

Proposal of Chile and Venezuela: Alafna should promote education for general public and schools on all levels, to compensate the negative effect on the general publics perception on nuclear science due to the Fukushima accident.

Agenda: ANDES projectConstruction of an underground laboratory with international visibility in the tunel Agua Negra, between Argentina and Chile, below the Andes. Situated between 3.5-5km on Argentinian side, Thickness of the rock >1500 m.

Situated between 3.5-5km on Argentinian side, Thickness of the rock >1500 m. The present members have discussed the project and those of the steering commitee voted in favour of an endorsement.However there is a worry about the cost of the project and the maintenance of the present funding of existing projects.Also it was stated that the project should benefit the local and regional technological developement. Accelerator developement-Tandar

Common activities since the last meeting (Dec. 19, 2009)

- Adoption of the Chart of Santiago (January 2010)

- July 2-4, 2010 two-Day Symposium on International Nuclear Science of the IUPAP Working Group WG.9 at TRIUMF - July 10, 2010: National Academy of Sciences (NP2010) Text in the final report

-July 2011 IX Symposium under the auspices of IUPAP (Quito)

-July 2011 Presence at IUPAP WG9 meeting on 07/24/2011 at MIT

-February 2012, Experimental Nuclear Physics Summer School at USP with expressive latin american participation.-August 2012 Presence at IUPAP WG9 meeting on 08/18/2012 at RIKEN-October 2012 Presence at NuPECC meeting Sevilla.

-26-30 Nov. 2012 Andean School “Nuclear Physics in the 21st century” in Bogota, Colombia.

Latin American Symposia on Nuclear Physics and Applications 1995 Caracas, Venezuela1997 Caracas, Venezuela1999 San Andrés, Colombia2001 Ciudad de México, México2003 Santos, Brazil2005 Iguazu, Argentina2007 Cuzco, Peru2009 Santiago, Chile 2011 Quito, Ecuador2013 Montevideo, Uruguay Scope: the dissemination of the major theoretical and

experimental advances in the field of nuclear science and its applications. The main topics to be covered are: Nuclear Structure and

Reactions, Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics, Cosmic Rays, Hadron Structure and Phases of Nuclear Matter, Tests of Fundamental Symmetries and Properties of Neutrinos, Nuclear Instrumentation and

Facilities: Radiation Detectors and Sources, and Applications in Medicine (Biomedical Imaging, Radiotherapy),Art/Archeology, Energy,

Space and International Security.

Scientific Program of the IX LASNPA

Copiar o pdf fa website do simp.

Number of participants: 120Less than in Chile (170), due to less local Participation, air fares expensive from Brazil and Argentina, higher fee.

Next Symposium dec. 2013-Montevideo-Uruguay

31 plenary talks

http://videos.physics.asu.edu/LatinIX/program-IX-Latin-June30.pdf

58 talks in parallel sessions

Number of participants: 125

Less than in Chile (170), due to less local participation, air fares expensive from Brazil and Argentina, higher fee.Next Symposium dec. 2013-Montevideo-Uruguay

General Informations on the status of Nuclear Physics in

Argentina Brazil Chile Mexico Venezuela Ecuador Colombia Peru

Nuclear Physics and Applications in Argentina and Cooperation in Latin

America

A.J.Kreiner1,2,3.

1Departamento de Física, CNEA, Atomic Energy Commission Arg. 2Escuela de Ciencia y Tecnología. Universidad de San Martin, Arg. 3CONICET (National Research Council), Argentina.

Major facility: TANDAR 20 MV Tandem (Pelletron)

Facility's major experimental instrumentation and its capabilities:

• - QDD magnetic spectrometer.• - Microbeam facility (beam spots of about 1μ2) with high resolution X-ray

detection.• - External beam irradiation facility with on-line dose determination.• - Heavy-ion identification based on a time-of-flight facility (start and stop

signals derived from microchannel plates) followed by a Bragg spectrometer or solid state detectors.

• - 30-inch diameter multipurpose scattering chamber.• - Irradiation chamber for the simulation of outer-space environmental

conditions.• Ion implanter.

• Number of actual, active users of the facility: 51• Number of a) permanent staff, as scientific, technical, and administrative staff,

employed by the lab: 46 and b) temporary staff (including graduate students and postdoctoral researchers on the facility’s payroll): 12

Research Programs

The main experimental and theoretical research lines related to Nuclear Physics and its applications are the following:

• Low-energy nuclear physics: Nuclear structure, nuclear reactions, collective nuclear excitations and giant resonances, break-up reactions and their influence on fusion reactions involving weakly bound nuclei; fusion barrier distributions.

• High-energy nuclear physics: Hadronic models based on QCD. Phase structure of strong interactions.

Other CNEA centers• 1.2 EZEIZA Atomic Center: Isotope production (40 MeV proton

Cyclotron). Nuclear metrology (radiation measurements, standards for gammas, betas, neutrons). Reactor physics (RA-3 research reactor). BNCT with reactors. 60Co irradiators. Isotope production. (150 people).

• 1.3 BARILOCHE Atomic Center: Neutron physics (electron LINAC for neutron production thru photonuclear reactions, 10 people). Reactor physics and engineering RA-6 (School of Nuclear Engineering). Clinical trials in BNCT (4). Auger physics (4).

• 1.4 School of Nuclear medicine (Mendoza). PET center in association with National Cancer Institute (Buenos Aires).

NUCLEAR PHYSICS RESEARCH IN

BRAZILAlinka Lépine-Szily

Number of scientists and graduate students in Nuclear Physics in Brasil in 2010

2005: 63 universities2009: 131 universities (http://www.universidades.com.br/brasil.htm)1999: 2.7 millions of students, 6.9%2004: 4.16 millions of students2009: 4.88 millions of students, 13.9%

In 2005(under-estimated)

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Major Facility for Nuclear Physics research 8 MV Pelletron Tandem University of São Paulo: Institute of Physics

8 MV tandem3-5 MeV.A

RIBRAS

Local facility: Very important for graduate student training, 56 MS and PhD thesis in last 10 years

Facility´s major experimental instrumentation and

capabilities:

1. Radioactive Ion Beam Brasil (RIBRAS) 2 superconducting

solenoids can select and focus radioactive beams produced by transfer reactions

B=6.5T.6He,8Li,7,10Be,8B,17,18F etc beams.

2. Two large position sensitive neutron detectors (Neutron wall)

3. Gamma-ray+charged particle spectrometer (SACI-PERERE)

4. Enge split-pole spectrometer5. Multi-purpose scattering chamber.

6. Large scattering chamber

1111118th 118th Intn Few-Body Problems in PhysIcs 8th International IUPAP Conference on Few-Body Problems in PhysIcs

Research Programs:

Low-energy nuclear physics:T,ELow energy reaction and structure studies with stable and radioactive beams, break-up, fusion, nuclear astrophysical reactions, Gamma-spectrosopy, nuclear structure with light-ion transfer reactions. T: 3-body description of halo nuclei, fusion models for superheavies, weak-interaction for r-processHigh-energy nuclear physics: Theory:Hadronic models in QCD, Phases of nuclear matter, nuclear astrophysics within relativistic models(hadronic and quark stars),Experimental: Auger projectSTAR collaboration at RHIC, Alice collaboration at LHC PHENIX collaboration at RHIC, Atlas collab. at LHC

Highlights of recent results from RIBRAS, first and unique radioactive facility in Latin America-elastic scattering of halo nuclei on light, medium mass, heavy nuclei6He +9Be ,27Al, 51V,120Sn, 7Be + 9Be, 51V,8Li + 9Be, 51V8B + 27Al, 8Li, 7Be , 10Be on 12C ,8Li + p, 6He + pResonant transfer reactions :p(8Li,4He)5He

p(8Li,4He)5He R-matrix fits

Ecm(MeV)

Main Institutions:

1. São Paulo state (80% experimental, 35% theoretical

activity)- São Paulo USP E, T research in low, high energy nuclear

physics IFT/UNESP Hadronic models in QCD, 3-body models of halo

nuclei T ITA 3-body models of halo nuclei , relativistic nuclear structure

T Unicamp; Auger project, RHIC, LHC E IPEN: gamma spectrosopy, instrumentation and applications

E2. Rio de Janeiro UFRJ Theoretical studies of Nuclear Reactions, Hadron Physics

T UFF Low energy Nuclear Reactions T,E AMS E CBPF Hadron Physics, fusion models for SHE, r-process T3. Southern states, Paraná, UEL, applications, Gamma and

X-ray spectrometry for material analysis E Santa Catarina, UFSC nuclear astrophysics within

relativistic models(hadronic and quark stars) T Rio Grande do Sul, UFRGS, FURG hadron physics using

QCD T

International Collaborations:Experimental:1.Strong collaboration between Pelletron (USP) -Tandar Argentina and UFF (Niteroi, Brasil) Pro-Sul CNPq-

CONICET

2. STAR, PHENIX collaboration at RHIC

3. Alice collaboration at LHC

5. Collaborations: Legnaro, Catania, Sevilla, Madrid, U. Notre Dame, CNS-U.Tokyo, GANIL, ANU

Theory: U.La Plata (Arg.), Cuba, U. Coimbra, Tandar, National

Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Oxford Univ., Univ. Tennessee, Univ. Sydney, Univ. Aarhus.

Difficulties: Small groups, Heavy travel expenses, little money for graduate students

Funding: Brazil

Federal Funding Agency: Conselho de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq ).State funding agencies: Ex: Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa de Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP).

~50 M$/year, 2.5M$/year for Nuclear Physics,(include grants, student fellowships, does not include salaries, which are paid by Univ, Intitutes)

Science without Frontiers: 200.000 undergraduate students/year are being t for 1 year abroad.Funding: less in other Latin American countries

Future projects in Brazil: RMB (Multipurpose Research Reactor) of 30MW for radioisotope production and applications, Argentinian-Brazilian collaboration OPAL reactor, totally funded 900MR$=350MEuro

XXXV Nuclear Physics Workshop in Brazil 2-6 september 2012, Maresias, Brazil24 plenary talks (14 international), 191 participants,Parallel session, posters

New 14C-AMS facility installed at Universidade Federal Fluminense,Niteroi, Brazil . First in South America.

Nuclear Physics in Chile

Roberto Morales Universidad de Chile

UNIVERSITY OF CHILE VAN DE GRAAFF LABORATORY

Acelerador Van de Graaff. 3.75 MeVSistemas de espectroscopía gamma, rayos X, alfa

P.A. Miranda, M. A. Chesta, S. A. Cancino, J. R. Morales, M. I. Dinator, J. A. Wachter and C. TenreiroNuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B 248 (2006) 150-154

Recursos humanos.-´Investigadores Universidad de Chile

Arellano, Hugo Dr. UCHCancino, Simón M.Cs. UCHDinator, Maria I. M.Cs. UCH *Morales, J. Roberto Dr. UCHMiranda, Pedro Dr. UCH

ColaboradoresRobert Flocchini. UC Davis, California, U.S.A.Javier Miranda. UNAM, México.Andrea Seelenfreund. Universidad Academia de Humanismo CristianoRafael Correa. Universidad Tecnológica MetropolitanaSergio Montes. Universidad de SantiagoClaudio Tenreiro. Universidad de TalcaMario Ávila. Comisión Chilena de Energía NuclearRaúl Morales. Fac. Ciencias, Universidad de ChileMargarita Préndez. Fac. Ciencias Química y Farmacéutica. U. de ChileDiego Salazar. Fac. Ciencias Sociales. U. de ChileRaúl Muñoz. Fac. de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas. U. de Chile

Nuclear Physics in Mexico

Roelof Bijker and María Ester Brandan

UNAM

Experimental facilities• 6 MV Tandem (ININ)• 0.7 and 5.5 MV Van de Graaf and 3 MV

Pelletron (IFUNAM)• Instrumentation laboratories

– Pyramid of the Sun and HAWC (IFUNAM)– Detector lab (ICNUNAM)– Instrumentation labs (Puebla and UMSNH)

Where?• UNAM, DF, Instituto de Física, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares,

Fac de Ciencias• ININ and Univ. Autónoma del Estado de México, Toluca• Cinvestav, DF y Mérida• Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa• Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla• Universidad Michoacana San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia• Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Zacatecas• Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa

How many?• About 20 (10) in basic research

and its instrumentation• About 30 (10) in applied nuclear

physics and its instrumentation

• Graduate students: About 50

Subjects: Basic science • Nuclear structure (symmetries, cluster

models, nuclear masses, double decay) T• Hadronic physics (LE QCD, quark models) T• Cosmic rays (Pyramid of the Sun, HAWC) E• Neutron physics, fundamental symmetries

E• International collaborations: T, E

– ALICE (IFUNAM, ICNUNAM, Cinvestav, BUAP, UAS)

– Auger (ICNUNAM) – RIB ORNL, Notre Dame (IFUNAM, ICNUNAM)– LANL (IFUNAM)

Subjects: Applied science

• Medical physics (IFUNAM, ICNUNAM, School of Medicine UNAM, UAZ) E

• Radiation physics E– RBS, PIXE, other techniques

Nuclear Physics and Applications in EcuadorInstitutions

Escuela Politécnica Nacional (EPN), Quito www.epn.edu.ec

linac Co irradiator

Dept. de Física y AstronomíaDept. de Ciencias Nucleares

• Bulk irradiations (electron, gamma)• Atomic absorption (X-rays, UV)• Fluorescence and mass analysis

activity /

Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito

„National Bureau of Control, License and Studies of Nuclear Sciences“ (former Atomic Energy Commission)

Dependency of the Ministry of Electricity and Renewable EnergyLaboratories (e.g. Dosimeter and radiation monitor calibration).

• Regulations, safeguards• Nuclear techniques (element analysis)

www.meer.gov.ec

www.usfq.edu.ec• Particle physics (D0 Fermilab)

Oncology Society SOLCA, Quito www.solca.med.ec• Medical Physics• Radiotherapy (electron, photon)

commercial radiotherapy linacs (e–,)

Hospitals (oncology), Quito, Guayaquil

commercial radiotherapy linacs (e–,)

• Radiotherapy treatments (electron, photon)

Nuclear Physics inNuclear Physics in VENVENEZUEZUELAELA

Universidad de los AndesHigh Energy Group (3 Ph.D) Dr. Luis NuñezHydrogeology Group (2 Ph.D) Dr. Hervé Jegat

I.V.I.C.60-Co Irradiation Facility. Ing. Paolo TraversaSecondary Calibration Lab. Dr. Lila CarrizalezMedical Physics Masters CoursesOfficial National Training Courses in RadioprotectionEnvironmental Radioactivity

Universidad Central de VenezuelaMedical Physics Masters Courses. Dr. Rafael Martín (20-25 students / year)Lab. Applications Nuclear Tech. In Industry. Dr. Héctor Constan. (L.Cintillation)

Ministery of EnergyComisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, National Nuclear Authority. Dr. Héctor ConstanRegularions & Permissions.Training (Through IAEA)Monitoring for evaluations and permissions (Gamma Spectroscopy).

Univ. Centro Occ. Lizandro AlvaradoTXRF – Chemistry Department. Dra. Lué Meru Marco

Hospitals & Private CentresCiclotron (18F), PET, LINAC, Gamma Ch., MRI, CT, etc. Dra. Aisa Manzo

LASERSpectrometer δ18

OIEA

Researchers 8Prof. L. Sajo-Bohus

Prof. E. Greaves

Dr. P. Nemeth

Prof. J. Liendo

Prof. D. Palacios

Prof. H. Barros

Prof. M. Bernal

Prof. F. Rodríguez

New Professionals 29Ph.D. Physics 2

M.Sc. Physics 2

M.Sc. Chemistry 2

M.Sc. Eng. Electronic 1

B.Sc. Physics: 12

B.Sc. Chemistry 5

B.Sc. Biology 1

Electric & Electronic Eng. 6

Postgraduate abroad 12

Students 8Ph.D. 5

M.Sc. 6

B.Sc. 5

Support Staff 32 Tech. + 1 Adm.

Techniques and devicesIon Implanter (0,4 MeV)

Neutron Source (Cf)

Alpha (Si) & Gamma Spectrometry (HPGe)

TXRF & DRX

TLD and SSNTD

Co & Cs intense sources

BGO, NaI(Tl) and Cherenkov

AbroadNAA

Ion Beam Analysis

AMS, ICPMS & TIMS

Last Five years

OIEA

Universidad Simon Bolivar(www.nuclear.fis.usb.ve)

Física nuclear y aplicaciones en el Perú

El Instituto Peruano de Energía Nuclear (IPEN) cuenta con un reactor de investigación de 10 MW, en el cual se produce radioisótopos para medicina y se realiza análisis químicos por activación neutrónica. Se tiene también una facilidad de neutrografía. El IPEN en colaboración con la Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería se realiza simulación de experimentos de fisión y experimentos de física de reactores.

Un grupo de la Pontifica Universidad Católica del Perú trabaja en el experimento ALICE con el grupo de México en el CERN.

Conclusions:Most countries in the region have small activity in basic Nuclear Physics research. Mostly radiation and medical applications. Very small number of scientists (each country <20).Exceptions: Argentina (130), Brazil (400), Mexico(100), including graduate students.

Region has no large scale facilities in NP, but intense activity around smaller facilities, large number of students.Small support from funding agencies even for maintenance of existing facilities.

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