CENBG: Nuclear Studies Center of Bordeaux Gradignan

Focuses of research & scientific skills

ASTRO_NEUTRINO

• "exotic" nuclei in isospin (far from the beta stability valley) and rare radioactivity,
• Neutrino physics (nature and mass) and double beta decay,
• high energy gamma astronomy,
• study of innovative systems of nuclear power generation and transmutation of nuclear waste,
• study of nuclear excitations using lasers,
• study of the interactions of ionizing radiation and biology,
• theoretical study of the structure of nuclei and hadrons.

NUCLEAR

• Downstream of the cycle and Nuclear Energy
• Nuclear Excitations by Laser
  • Nuclear excitations in plasmas
  • Laser Accelerated Particle Beams 
• Exotic nuclei
  • 2-proton radioactivity
  • Spectroscopy of nuclei rich in protons
  • Super Allowed Fermi Transitions
  • Nuclear structure and layer closures
• Theoretical physics

HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT

• ICS - Chemical Imaging and Speciation
  • Role of copper and zinc in the formation of synapses
  • Neurotoxicology of manganese
  • Neurotoxicology of uranium
  • Iron and alpha-synuclein in dopamine neurons
  • Cu and Zn in superoxide dismutase and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
  • Copper deficiency, superoxide dismutase proteinopathy and Parkinson's disease
• iRiBio
  • Cellular micro-irradiation and cancer
  • Chemical Microanalysis and Nanoparticles
  • Micro-dosimetry and numerical simulations
• Radioactivity & Environment

Specific equipment, resources and techniques

• AIFIRA Platform: Interdisciplinary Applications of Ion Beams in the Aquitaine Region
• PIAGARA Platform: Interdisciplinary Platform for Analysis of Rare Gases in Aquitaine
• PRISNA Platform : Regional Interdisciplinary Platform for Nuclear Spectrometry in Aquitaine

Technology transfer center

• Arcane: Regional Workshop of Characterization by Elementary Nuclear Analysis