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National Accelerator Centre (CNA)
Identification
Hosting Legal Entity
Spanish National Research Council
Address:
Spain
Junta de Andalucia
Address:
Spain
University of Seville
Address:
Spain
Location
7, Av. Thomas Alva Edison, Sevilla, PO: 41092, Andalucia (Spain)
Structure
Type Of RI
Single-sited
Coordinating Country
Spain
Status
Status
Current Status:
Operational since 1999
Scientific Description
National Center of Accelerators, CNA, is a joint center of the University of Seville, Junta de Andalucía and CSIC. It is a Unique Scientific-Technical Facility, ICTS, dedicated to interdisciplinary research and therefore open to external users. To do this, 6 different installations are used: a Van de Graaff 3 MV Tandem accelerator, a 18/9 MeV Cyclotron accelerator, an Accelerator 1MV Mass Spectrometer, a PET / CT scanner, a new radiocarbon dating system called MiCaDaS, and a 60Co Irradiator.The application of these 6 infrastructures covers fields as diverse as material sciences, environmental impact, nuclear and particle physics, nuclear instrumentation, medical imaging, biomedical research and preclinical molecular imaging or dating, medical imaging in patients, 14C and irradiation in samples of technological and biological interest, among others.

RI Keywords
Environmental sciences, Cultural heritage, Ion accelerators, Tracking detectors, Hot particles, Nuclear physics, Material sciences, Irradiation experiments, Archeometry, 14C dating
Classifications
RI Category
Nuclear Research Facilities
Scientific Domain
Biological and Medical Sciences
Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Mathematics
ESFRI Domain
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Health and Food
Services
Production of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Radionuclides
C-14 Dating

Associated to AMS, accelerator mass spectrometry, there is a service of 14C dating.

Measurements by Ion Beam Analysis (IBA) Techniques

Provides multi-elemental analysis by XRF, Channeling, PIGE, PIXE, RBS and NRA methods for experiments such as material science, archaeology, environmental sciences, irradiation experiments, nuclear physics and nuclear instrumentation.

Measurements by Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS)

Measurements of the content of Plutonium, Iodine, Beryllium and Carbon isotopes have been performed in environmental and historical samples.

Equipment
Cyclotron 18/9 MeV

Accelerator used to IBA (Ion Beam Analisys) measurements and radionuclides PET producction.

1 MV Tandetron Accelerator

Accelerator used to long-life radionuclides mass spectrometry (Pu239-240, I129, Ca41, C14, Be10....).

3 MV Tandem Accelerator

Accelerator used to IBA (Ion Beam Analisys) measurements (PIXE, PIGE, NRA, RBS, CHANNELING ).

Mini Radiocarbon Dating System (MiCaDaS)

Accelerator used to C14 dating only.

60Co Irradiator

Equipment used to irradiation of aerospace technology by fotons.

PET/CT Scanners for Small Animals and for Humans

Scanners for Positron Emission Tomography and Computerized Tomography.

Access
Access Type
Physical
Access Mode
Excellence Driven, Market Driven
Collaborations
Networks
LAsers for Applications at Accelerators: A Marie Curie Initial Training NETwork
Date of last update: 13/12/2018
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