Report on Latin-American Activities in Nuclear Physics

Alinka Lépine-SzilyInstituto de Física-USP São Paulo, Brazil

IUPAP Working Group WG.9 AGM Washington DC-SURA Headquarters, USA. June 5, 2015

News on ALAFNA:

ALAFNA http://www.alafna.net/

The “Association of Latin American Nuclear Physics and Applications” (ALANPA) 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

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

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

Executive Board • Fernando Cristancho (Universidad Nacional, Bogotá) Colombia • Raul Donangelo (Universidad de la República, Montevideo), Uruguay• Paulo Gomes (Universidad Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro), Brasil• Andrés Kreiner (Tandar, CNEA, Buenos Aires), Argentina• Alinka Lépine-Szily (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo), Brasil

ALAFNA homepage is installed: www.alafna.netNext meeting of ALAFNA: together with next XI LASNPA, Dec. 2015 in Medellin, Colombia.

The association of ALAFNA to CLAF (Centro Latino Americanode Fisica) is in negociation.

Conferences, symposia, summer schools

in 2014-2015

COLOMBIA

Latin American Symposia on Nuclear Physics and Applications (LASNPA) 1995 Caracas, Venezuela1997 Caracas, Venezuela1999 San Andrés, Colombia2001 Ciudad de México, México2003 Santos, Brazil2005 Iguazu, Argentina2007 Cuzco, Peru2009 Santiago, Chile 2011 Quito, Ecuador 2013 Montevideo, Uruguay2015 Medellin, Colombia (IUPAP support cat.B)

Scope: the dissemination of the major theoretical and experimental advances in the field of nuclear science and its applications.

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Local Organizing Committee• Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá• Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín• Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín• Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá

"The 11th Latin American Symposium on Nuclear Physics and Applications"

• The Symposium will be held on Nov. 30 – Dec. 4, 2015 in Medellín, Colombia.

• The symposium will be preceded by a School on Medical Physics, on November 27-28, 2015. 

• The symposium is supported by IUPAP as Category B

Topics of the Symposium

• Nuclear Structure, Nuclear Reactions and Exotic Nuclei

• Nuclear Astrophysics, Cosmic Rays

• Hadron Structure, Phases of Nuclear Matter, QCD

• Tests of Fundamental Symmetries and Properties of Neutrinos

• Nuclear Instrumentation and Facilities

• Applications in Medicine, Art/Archaeology, Energy, Space and Security

Andreoiu, Corina (Simon Fraser University, Canada)Aprahamian, Ani (University of Notre Dame, USA)Arellano, Hugo (Universidad de Chile, Chile)Bertulani, Carlos (Texas A&M University, USA)Bijker, Roelof (Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México, México)Brandan, María Ester (Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México, México)Brooks, Will (Universidad Santa María, Chile)Canto, Luiz Felipe (Universidade Federale Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)Casten, Rick (Yale University, USA)Civitarese, Osvaldo (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)Cole, Philip (Idaho State Universiy, USA)Djalali, Chaden (University of Iowa, USA)Donangelo, Raúl (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)Egido, Luis ( Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)Fahlander, Claes (Lund University, Sweden)Gadea, Andrés (Universidad de Valencia, Spain)Galindo-Uribarri, Alfredo (Oak Ridge, USA)Gomes, Paulo (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil)Granja, Carlos (Czech Technical University, Czech Republic)Hjorth-Jensen, Morten (University of Oslo, Norway)Jeraj, Robert (University of Wisconsin, USA)Koester, Ulli (Institut Laue-Langevin, France)Kreiner, Andres (Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina)Lenzi, Silvia (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy)Lepine-Szily, Alinka (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)Lister, Kim (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA)López, Jorge (University of Texas, USA)Macchiavelli, Augusto (Berkeley Lawrence Laboratory, USA)Medina, Nilberto (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)Napoli, Daniel (Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Italy)Naviliat-Cuncic, Oscar (Michigan State University, USA)Orlandi, Riccardo (Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Japan)Pacheco, Alberto (Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina)Regan, Patrick (University of Surrey, UK)Riley, Mark (Florida State University, USA)Rubio, Berta (Universidad de Valencia, Spain)Sajo-Bohus, Laszlo (Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela)Smith, Elton (Jefferson Laboratory, USA)Stuchbery, Andrew (Australian National University, Asutralia)Tabor, Sam ( Florida State University, USA)

International Advisory Commitee

Second Andean School on Nuclear Physics http://www.gfnun.unal.edu.co/andeanschool

Speaker Theme

Dr. Jurgen Gerl Gamma Applications

Prof. Giuseppe Viesti Neutron Applications

Prof. Noemi Koller g-Factor

Prof José OliveiraExperimental 

Nuclear Structure

Prof. Richard Laforest Medical Imaging

Dr Gerfried Kumbarttzki g-Factor

Dr Danas Ridikas Research Reactors

Dr Judy Vyshniauskas Research Reactors

J. Preston Research Reactors

S. Reese Research Reactors

Jaime Sandoval Research Reactors

Prof. Mark HuyseRadioactive Ion Beams

Invited Talks

Speaker Theme

Pr. Pavel Moskal

Experimental Nuclear Physics

Dr. Walter Reviol

Experimental Nuclear Physics

LECTURES

52 participants

BRAZIL

Weakly Bound Exotic Nuclei

• Workshop at International Institute of Physics (IIP), Natal, Brazil

• Date: Sunday, May 24, 2015 - Saturday, May 30, 2015

• Directors: – Carlos Bertulani Department of Physics, Texas A&M

University-Commerce (USA);– Paulo Gomes, Universidade Federal Fluminense (Rio

de Janeiro, Brazil);– Renato Higa, USP (São Paulo, Brazil);– Alinka Lépine-Szily, USP (São Paulo, Brazil);– Ubirajara van Kolck, CNRS, Université Paris Sud

(France)

http://www.iip.ufrn.br/eventsdetail?inf===wTEFUP

IIP MissionThe IIP is a research institute with an international vocation, permanently facing the frontier areas of theoretical physics. Its mission is to intensify the exchange of scientific knowledge with the international community and, in particular with the Latin American community, being a pole unifying national strategic areas of theoretical physics. The IIP should exercise national leadership and act decisively in favor of scientific development in the North and Northeast having the following permanent objectives:I – To develop and carry out scientific research on frontier theoretical physics;II – To act decisively towards the scientific development of the Country.The strategic goals of IIP are:I – to promote, periodically, international scientific meetings addressed to scientists, postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers, in topics related to theoretical physics;II – to promote basic research in theoretical physics;III – to establish international partnerships in order to strengthen Brazilian and Latin American participation in international research network;IV – to set up exchange programs involving researchers from abroad and from all regions of Brazil, through the development of scientific cooperation projects of short, medium and long range.

Research fields at IIP

Quark, Hadron and Nuclear Physics including manybody systems

String Theory and Holography

Strong Correlated Electron Systems

Quantum Information

XXXVIII RTFNB

Brazilian Workshop on Nuclear Physics

September 8-10, 2015, Mangaratiba, RJ                                                                                                                                             

Participants : ~ 160 researchers and students 16 invited speakers from abroad

Andres Arazi (TANDAR)Cem Ozen (Kadir Has University)Dmitry Vladimirovich Kamanin (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)Eliezer Piasetzky (Tel Aviv University)Eulogio Oset Báguena (Universitat de Valência)Filomena Nunes (Michigan State University)Francesco Becattini (University of Florence)Francesco Cappuzzello (Univ. di Catania e Laboratori Nazionali del Sud)Francesco Paolo Romano (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche)Frithjof Karsch (Bielefeld Universitat)Helio Takai (Brookhaven National Laboratory)Hendric Schatz (Michigan State University)İsmail Boztosun (Akdeniz University)Matej Mayer (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik)Sigurd Hofmann (GSI Helmholtz Centre e Goethe Univ. Frankfurt)Wolfgang Mittig (Michigan State University)

Airton Deppman (USP)Alexandre A. P. Suaide (USP)Alinka Lepine-Szily (USP)Antonio Delfino Jr. (UFF)Armando N. Faria Aleixo (UFRJ)Brett Vern Carlson (ITA/CTA)Carla Regina Alves Carvalho (UFF)Carlos Roberto Appoloni (UEL)Celso de Camargo Barros Jr. (UFSC)Debora P. Menezes (UFSC)Enio Frota da Silveira (PUC)Ignácio A. Bediaga e Hickman (CBPF)José Roberto B. de Oliveira (USP)Luiz Felipe U. Canto (UFRJ)Mahir S. Hussein (USP)Marina Nielsen (USP)Marcia de Almeida Rizzutto (USP)Marcos A. G. Alvarez (USP)Maurício Moralles (IPEN)Nemitala Added (USP)Odair Lelis Gonçalez (IEAv)Odilon Lourenço da Silva Filho (UFSCar)Paulo Fernando P. Fichtner (UFRGS)Paulo R. Silveira Gomes (UFF)Renato Higa (USP)Ricardo Magnus Osorio Galvão (USP)Roberto Meigikos dos Anjos (UFF)Sérgio Barboza Duarte (CBPF)Tobias Frederico (ITA/CTA)

Invited speakers

XVII Theoretical Nuclear Physics Summer School Maresias, February 22 – 28, 2015

QCD at finite temperature and density Prof. Dr. Owe Philipsen, Frankfurt University, Germany

Physics of compact stars Prof. Dr. Juergen Schaffner-Bielich, Frankfurt University, Germany

Theoretical aspects of low energy nuclear physics Prof. Dr. Antonio Moro, Universidad de Sevilla, Espanha

Effective field theories and applications in nuclear physics Prof. Dr. Hans-Werner Hammer, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

Participants: 52

MEXICO

List of events organized by Div. of Nuclear Physics in Mexico:

- XXXVIII Simposio de Física Nuclear, Hacienda Cocoyoc, 6-9 de enero de 2015

- XXXIX Simposio de FísicaNuclear, Hacienda Cocoyoc, 5-8 de enero de 2016

- Programa de Estancias de Verano en el Extranjero, verano de 2016

- IX Escuela Mexicana de Fisica Nuclear, Mexico DF, 22 junio a 6 julio de 2015

Participants: 46

Invited SpeakersTitle

Ani Aprahamian University of Notre Dame, USA

Sensitivity of the r-process to nuclear masses and beta decay rates in three astrophysical scenarios.

Libertad Barrón for the NPDGamma Collaboration Instituto de Física-UNAM, Mexico

Low energy-neutrons in the study of the Hadronic Weak Interaction: The NPDGamma Experiment

Roelof Bijker Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares-UNAM Mexico

Valence and sea quarks in the nucleon

Efraín Chávez Instituto de Física-UNAM, Mexico

  Nuclear (astro)physics in the upgraded accelerator facilities at IFUNAM.

Osvaldo Civitarese Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Argentina

On the definition of entropy for unstable states

Eduardo Coello Pérez University of Tennessee, USA

Electric transitions of deformed nuclei within an effective theory.

Jerry Draayer Louisiana State University, USA

  Dominant Modes in Light Nuclei. Ab Initio View of Emergent Symmetries

Francisco Favela Instituto de Física-UNAM, Mexico

Progress in the characterization of the gas jet target.

Ruben Fossion Instituto Nacional de Geriatría and Centro de Ciencias de

la Complejidad-UNAM, Mexico

Data-adaptive unfolding of nonergodic spectra in spectral fluctuation studies.

Arturo Gómez-Camacho Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares, Mexico

 CDCC calculations of elastic scattering angular distributions for 6 Li with several targets using global

potentialsPeter Hess 

Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares-UNAM, Mexico Neutron stars with dark energy

Tonatiuh Jiménez-Bustamante Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares-UNAM, Mexico

 Identified particle production in pp, p-Pb, and Pb-Pb collisions measured with ALICE at the LHC energies

Arturo Menchaca Instituto de Física-UNAM, Mexico

Asymmetric vs. symmetric heavy ion fusion: an old riddle solved using macroscopic liquid drop collisions.

Stuart Pittel University of Delaware, USA

Exact solution of the pairing hamiltonian in atomic nuclei

W. Michael Snow Indiana University, USA

 Searching for Dark Energy Using Neutron

Interferometry

Scott Suchyta NSCL, Michigan State University USA Shape coexistence in 68Ni

Adam Szczepaniak Indiana University, USA Hadron Spectroscopy: past, present and future.

Carlos Vargas Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico

Microscopic study of collectivity in 160−170Dy nuclei

Victor Velázquez Facultad de Ciencias-UNAM, Mexico

 Complexity, decoherence and quantum chaos in the nuclear shell model.

Michael Wiescher University of Notre Dame, USA Nuclear Astrophysics Challenges at Threshold

Energies.

Kathrin Wimmer Central Michigan University, USA Single-particle structure of neutron-rich N=40

isotopes.

Tochtli Yépez Indiana University, USA

Charmonium meson and hybrid radiative transitions

Kai Zuber Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Status and perspectives of double beta decay

Exchange programs

Ciência sem Fronteira -- Science without Border orBrazil’s Scientific Mobility Program

http://www.cienciasemfronteiras.gov.br/web/csf-eng/

Goals: • Promote expansion of science, technology and innovation in Brazil by

means of international exchange and mobility.• increase the presence of students, scientists and industry personnel from

Brazil in international institutions of excellence• encourage young talents and highly qualified researchers from abroad

to work with local investigators in joint projects, contributing to the capacitation of human resources and promoting the return of Brazilian scientists working overseas,

• induce the internationalization of universities and research centers in Brazil by encouraging the establishment of international partnerships.

Engineering and other technological areas 24.260Exact Sciences 4.445 Health and Biomedical Sciences 9.769Information and Communication Technologies 3.570Aerospace 252Pharmaceuticals 1.199Sustainable Agricultural Production 2.195Oil, Gas and Coal 428Renewable Energy 687 Biotechnology 1.411Nanotechnology and New Materials 455Technology for prevention and mitigation of natural 218disastersBiodiversity and bio-prospection 801Marine Sciences 540Minerals 105New technologies for constructive engineering 399Formation of technical personnel 110

Areas No of fellowships implemented

Some highlights in Nuclear Physics activities

Brazil

Radioactive Ion Beams in Brazil (RIBRAS), first in Southern Hemisphere, only in Latin America.

In-flight production of pure (99%) radioactive ion beamsusing 2 superconducting solenoids + degrader. Connected to8MV Pelletron Tandem. Beams of 6He,8Li,7Be,8B,10Be,17,18F etc, energies close to Coulomb barrier.Program: Fusion reactions, break-up reactions, transfer reactions of astrophysical interest.

Applied Nuclear physics activity: Irradiation of electronic Circuits to qualify for satelits. Medical physics. Surface studies, Dating of archeological objects.

Strong theory groups in nuclear structure(3-body halo nuclei)Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions astroparticle physics.

Argentina

20 MV Pelletron Tandem, stable beams, nuclearReaction studies, fusion, break-up reactions.

Strong activity in Medical Physics: construction of a high intensity low-energy proton accelerator and a SPECT tomograph for accelerator-based Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT).

Accelerator Mass Spectrometry

Mexico

• Nuclear structure (symmetries, cluster models,

nuclear masses, double b decay) T

• Hadronic physics (LE QCD, quark models) T

• Cosmic rays (Pyramid of the Sun, HAWC) E

International collaborations: T, E– ALICE (IFUNAM, ICNUNAM, Cinvestav, BUAP, UAS)– Auger (ICNUNAM) – RIB ORNL, Notre Dame (IFUNAM, ICNUNAM)– LANL (IFUNAM)

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

– RBS, PIXE, other techniques

VenezuelaApplications only- Promotion of the Latin American Environmental Radiation Network to draw a Regional Radiological Map.- New equipment for multiphase fluid monitoring in oilfield exploitation. - Geochronology (IAEA project VEN/2012- Radiobiology

ChileUniversidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria – ValparaisoTheory: study of the origin of the proton spin. Neutrino physics. Analytical calculation of Feynman diagrams.Experimental: Activity at Jefferson Laboratory USA.Santiago : Applications

Colombia, Peru, Cuba: Applications

Conclusions

• ALAFNA is becoming formalized

• Next LASNPA-Medellin,Colombia, come over

• No new facilities

• International Institute of Physics in Natal

• Brazil’s Scientific mobility program-success

High Energy Physics :

The São Paulo Research and Analysis Center (SPRACE) implemented in 2003, financial support from FAPESP, participation of high energy physics researchers from the State of São Paulo in DZero Collaboration at Fermilab and in Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.

http://www.sprace.org.br/sprace-project

SPRACE associated to Heavy Ion group which explores the properties of the theory of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), such as the confinement of quarks and gluons, and the asymptotic freedom, that explains the existence of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a state of matter present at the birth of the Universe.

 The SPRACE computing center provides more than ten Teraflops of computing power. In 2005, SPRACE became part of the Open Science Grid (OSG), a consortium of universities, national laboratories and computing centers, which share a grid infrastructure over research networks via a common middleware.

It has become a Tier-2 in the hierarchical computing structure that is being used by the CMS experiment.

Date # Nodes #Cores HEP-SPEC06

TFlops (theoretical)

Storage (TB Raw)

Storage (TiB)

Mar/2004 22 44 113 0.233 4 3.4 Jun/2005 54 108 485 1.001 12.4 10.6 Sep/2006 86 172 1,475 2.025 12.4 10.6 Aug/2010 80 320 3,255 3.02 144 102.6 Mar/2012 80 320 3,255 3.02 504 378.6 Jun/2012 144 1088 13,698 10.085 1,044 787.0

Production Time History

SPRACE has a strong commitment to teaching and outreach activities.

At the São Paulo Research and Analysis Center (SPRACE) the International MasterClass event has been organized since 2008, always with increasing number of schools and participants. In 2014, SPRACE hosted more than 20 high schools from São Paulo and vicinities, bringing around 250 students and teachers for taking part in the three days of the event.

Conclusions

• ALAFNA is becoming formalized

• Next LASNPA-Medellin,Colombia, come over

• International Institute of Physics in Natal

• Brazil’s Scientific mobility program-success

• SPRACE

Total number of implemented fellowships: 55.657(may 2014)

Distribution per modality:

PhD “sandwích” 15.000 / 5.763

Full PhD 4.500 / 1.615

Post-doctoral 6.440 / 3.088

Under-graduate “sandwích” 64.000 / 45.054

Country of destination:

USA 14.983 UK 6.756Canada 5.596France 5.243Australia 4.168 Germany 4.149Portugal 3.138 Spain 2.980Italy 2.254Ireland 1.756Hungary 1.446Holland 1.133 South Corea 374Belgium 319 Japan 194China 193Sweden 188etc

Gender:

44% female56% male

Second phase, announced in 2014/06/25 by president Dilma Rousseff

Ciência sem Fronteiras 2.0 beginning in 2015:Federal government will offer 100 thousand new fellowships.