Curriculum 2024- (intakes 8- )

There will be three specialization paths:

• PATH 1: Experiments and Instrumentation in large accelerators. Students following this path (1/3 approx) will start in Spain for S1,  will move to Padova for S2, then to France for S3 and, finally, will go to any University in the consortium or associated center for the Master Thesis in S4.
• PATH 2: Theoretical nuclear physics. Students within this path (1/3 approx) will start in Spain for S1 & S2, then to will go to France for S3 and, finally to Italy (Padova or Catania) for the Master Thesis in S4.
• PATH 3: Applications and small accelerators. Students within this path (1/3 approx) will start in Spain for S1, will move to Catania for S2, then to France for S3 and, finally, will go to any University in the consortium or associated partner  for the Master Thesis in S4.

       S1                                    S2                                           S3                                           S4

The general scheme ECTs distribution of the Course is presented in the following table, giving the number of credits associated to each module according to the mobility and specialization path:

PATH 1 - EXP: Large accelerators (~1/3 of the students*)

PATH 2 - THEO: Theoretical Nuclear Physics (~1/3 of the students*)

PATH 3 - APP: Small accelerators (~1/3 of the students*)

*) Experience coming from previous editions makes us to estimate that the number of students coming to paths 1, 2 and 3 are approx. equally distributed among the paths.

The list the courses offered in each University for semesters one, two and three each year is given in the table below for each path separately.  Concerning semester 3, only 12 ECTS have to be obtained in regular courses, since 12 ECTS correspond to the internship and 6 ECTS are assigned to a common course (module 3, see below) which is compulsory for all students. Semester 4 is devoted to the preparation of the Master thesis in a host University, research center or company (MOD 5):

PATH 1: Experiments, instrumentation and large accelerators 

* Experimental nuclear physics includes: design of nuclear experiments, ions and sources, metrology, and Monte Carlo simulations. 
** If two courses are chosen here one of the previous four should be removed

PATH 2: Theoretical nuclear physics 

* Theoretical nuclear and atomic physics includes: advanced nuclear theory, density functional theory and applications, and fundamental interactions  

PATH 3: Applications and small accelerators

* Applications for therapy includes: physics of medical devices, dosimetry and radiation protection, basics of radiotherapy.

Courses will be taught in English. Students will be provided with the appropriate academic material in English.

All six participant Universities will offer Master thesis. In addition to the participant Universities, the associated Labs and Companies can be the hosts for Master Thesis development in cooperation with the host university. In particular, the following associated research centres could be the host for students: CERN (Geneva, Switzerland), the National Laboratory at Legnaro (Padova, Italy), National Laboratory del Sud (Catania, Italy), National Accelerator at GANIL (Caen, France), GSI Accelerators (Darmstadt, Germany), National Centre Accelerator (Seville, Spain), Accelerator Centre at Madrid (Madrid, Spain), CSIC (IEM, Madrid and IFIC, Valencia), CIEMAT (Madrid, Spain), INFN-LNF Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (Frascati, Italy), TRIUMF (Canada), TANDAR (Argentina), UNAM (México), CNESTEN (Morocco), iThemba Labs. (South Africa), etc. This list can be extended when other relevant institutions may join the consortium as associated partners.