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Definitive approval of CAPA as UNIZAR Research Institute

The Governing Council of the University of Zaragoza has definitively approved the creation of the Center for Astroparticles and High Energies (CAPA), as well as its internal regulations. The fundamental objective of the University Research Institute Center for Astroparticles and High Energy Physics is to promote research in the fields of high-energy physics, nuclear and […]

A connection is found between supermassive black holes and the shape of the galaxies that host them, which are a thousand times larger

The Center for Astroparticles and High Energy Physics (CAPA) at the University of Zaragoza has participated in a study published in Nature Astronomy. The research, led by an international collaboration including Professor Jacobo Asorey Barreiro, has discovered a relationship between the orientation of particle jets from supermassive black holes and the minor axis of the elliptical

Publication of the final results of the CAST experiment

The international collaboration CAST (CERN Axion Solar Telescope) was created in the early 2000s and has had the participation and leadership of researchers from the Centre for Astroparticles and High Energy Physics (CAPA-Unizar) since its inception. CAST has culminated the efforts of more than two decades of work with the publication in Physical Review Letters

AstroHEP-PPCC-2024

First meeting of the AstroHEP Complementary Plans Around 100 astrophysicists and particle physicists will meet from June 5 to 7, 2024 at the University of Zaragoza to discuss the current state of research and advances in the different areas of the Complementary Plans for Astrophysics and High Energy Physics . Aragón participates in these plans

Agreement for the creation of the CAPA University Institute

The Governing Council of the University of Zaragoza agrees to the creation of the Universidad de Zaragoza’s own University Research Institute, Center for Astroparticles and High Energies (CAPA), on May 29, 2024. Congratulations CAPA! Link to the agreement of the Government Council.

Premiere of the documentary “Hunting the Invisible”

Next Thursday, January 25, 2024 at 7 p.m., the documentary “Cazando lo Invisible” by Mirella R. Abrisqueta will premiere at Cines Grancasa, in which researchers from the Center for Astroparticles and High Energy Physics (CAPA) of the University of Zaragoza have participated. We only know what 5% of the Universe is made of. The rest

Virtual visit to the Canfranc Underground Laboratory on the Researchers’ Night

On November 27th, the Night of the Researchers will be celebrated once again throughout Europe and also in Zaragoza (Wanderlust, UCC) The CPAN (National Center for Particle Physics, Astroparticles and Nuclear) and the CIEMAT (Center for Energy, Environmental and Technological Research), in collaboration with numerous Spanish research institutes (including CAPA), offer a series of virtual

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