The University of Santiago de Compostela
in numbers
 founded in 1495
 one million square metres (82 buildings)
 63 official degrees + doctoral programmes
 30 -35,000 students
 2200 lecturers (355 professors)
 300 research groups
 203 PhD thesis (2004)
 budget 253 M€ (2004)
Nuclear physics research at USC
 Experimental Group of Nuclei and Particle (GENP)
- 5 senior researchers, 1 postdoc, 6 PhD students and 2 technicians
 Research projects:
- Nuclear structure with exotic beams
- Nuclear reactions (ADS reactions)
 International collaborarions:
- GSI, CERN(n_TOF), GANIL
Basic Nuclear Data for ADS at USC
 Spallation experiments at GSI (J. Benlliure): Hindas FP-V
GSI
 Fission experiments at CERN n_TOF (I. Durán): n_TOF FP-V
USC in EUROTRANS-nudatra (subtask 5.4.1)
 Objective
- Determine the production of volatile elements in high-energy
fission reactions produced in the spallation target
- Address the remaining discrepancies on total fission cross
sections in the 100-800 MeV energy range to fully understand
this reaction mechanism (dynamics of fission at high excitation
energy)
 Methodology
- Measure total fission cross sections and Z distributions of
fission residues in reactions induced by 181Ta, 208Pb (238U) at
energies between 200 and 1000 A MeV on hydrogen
Subatomic physics research at USC
 Particle physics department and Institute for High-energy physics
- 32 researchers
- 20 PhD students
 Research projects:
- High-energy physics: CERN
- Astro-particle physics: Auger observatory
- Nuclear physics