The National Center of Accelerators, CNA, is a mixed center of the University of Seville, Junta de Andalucía and CSIC. It is a Singular Scientific-Technical Installation, ICTS, dedicated to interdisciplinary research and therefore open to external users.
Six different installations are used: a Van de Graaff 3 MV Tandem Accelerator, a Cyclotron that provides 18 MeV protons and 9 MeV deuterons, a Cockcroft-Walton 1 MV Tandem Accelerator, used as a mass spectrometer, a PET/CT scanner for people, a new radiocarbon dating system called MiCaDaS, and a 60Co Irradiator.
The application of these 6 infrastructures covers fields as varied as materials sciences, environmental impact, nuclear and particle physics, nuclear instrumentation, medical imaging treatment, biomedical research and preclinical molecular imaging or dating, medical imaging in patients, carbon 14 dating and irradiation in samples of technological and biological interest, among others.
