Developing the IBA equipment to increase the versatility of the CNA

The Centro Nacional de Aceleradores (CNA) in Sevilla-Spain currently contains three accelerators: two tandems and a compact 18/9 cyclotron. Next year, a 60Co irradiation system will also be installed. This equipment will expand the range of irradiation experiments in the Centre using both charged particles as well as gamma-ray photons. Originally, based on the 3 MV tandem accelerator, the CNA was considered as a multidisciplinary research Centre devoted basically to the materials characterization by IBA techniques. Nowadays, the validity of our low-energy accelerators has been verified not only to perform analysis but also for irradiation testing, a very promising field of work since radiation effects are aggravated with the technology decreasing scales. In this work, the last innovations and modifications of our laboratory will be briefly described, emphasizing with respect to high energy PIXE experiments and its versatility to carry out irradiation tests.This work is partially supported by the Projects TEC2010-22095-C03-02 and TEC2010-22095-C03-01 (Spanish MICIIN).Peer Reviewe