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 particle physics, astrophysics, cosmology, astroparticles, and theoretical physics, as well as the technological developments associated with them.
To this end, CAPA, based in the Faculty of Sciences, will promote collaboration with other research centers and institutes, both nationally and internationally, and will develop different lines of research in these topics, such as the direct detection of dark matter, the modeling of dark matter in galaxies, axion physics, neutrino physics, radioactivity and ultra-low background techniques, or the applications of field theory in quantum information and topological materials, among others.