NuPECC LRP2024 Community input

Contribution List

116. A facility for an Accelerator-based Boron neutron capture therapy (AB-BNCT)

The AB-BNCT project (Accelerator Based Boron Neutron Capture Therapy) aims at the realization of an intense accelerator-based source of thermal neutrons, suitable for Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT). Within this framework, the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) is involved in several studies covering the accelerator and the moderator, also called Beam Shaping Assembly, that...

7. A proposal for measurements of psi(4040), psi(4160) and psi(4415) mesons

At the critical temperature $T_{\rm c}$ hadronization of quark-gluon plasma
gives hadronic matter that evolves until kinetic freeze-out. Hadronic matter is
strongly interacting matter. How to explore hadronic matter? $\psi(4040)$,
$\psi(4160)$ and $\psi(4415)$ mesons can be individually interpreted as the
$3 ^3S_1$, $2 ^3D_1$ and $4 ^3S_1$ quark-antiquark states. The three charmonia
are...

25. A unique probe for nuclear structure in a future European radioactive ion –electron collider

Electron scattering on radioactive nuclei could provide nuclear observables with an unprecedented radial sensitivity for exotic systems. In these nuclei, unique quantum phenomena occur but basic properties such as charge densities are still completely unknown. Precise densities extracted from the scattering data could be confronted to modern structure calculations. Such studies would provide...

10. A US-European initiative in underground nuclear astrophysics

Marialuisa Aliotta, University of Edinburg
Michael Wiescher, University of Notre Dame

Abstract: A direct collaboration between underground accelerator facilities, CASPAR in the US and LUNA in Europe, are being proposed to study nuclear reactions on primordial isotope that have been important for First Stars nucleosynthesis environments. These efforts will address the timescale of nuclear...

24. Ab initio calculation of nucleon structure functions from lattice QCD

Non-perturbative effects at low scales are widely recognized as a serious difficulty in improving the precision of global analyses of deep-inelastic and related hard scattering processes, and as a way of exploring the motion of quarks and gluons inside the nucleon. The long-term objective is to compute nucleon structure functions, including power corrections which manifest in higher twist...

88. Ablation Febiad Laser Ion Source system for isotopes production and their separation

The recent international reduction in the material availability, have highlighted the need to develop new methodologies focused on the production of enriched isotopes of various elements. The proposed method is relevant above all in the production of isotopes enriched with refractory elements (Mo, Tc, Ru, Rh, ...), which are difficult to obtain in a common industrial process due to the high...

161. ALICE 3: A next-generation heavy-ion experiment at the LHC

In this document we summarise the plans of the ALICE Collaboration for a novel detector designed to fully exploit the potential offered by the LHC for the study of the properties of strongly-interacting matter with high-energy nuclear collisions in LHC Runs 5 and 6. The detector (ALICE 3) is based on advanced silicon sensors and features superb pointing resolution, excellent tracking and...

121. ALTO 2.0

ALTO contribution

125. AMBER at CERN

The AMBER collaboration, approved by the CERN SPS Committee as north-area experiment NA66, pursues a broad programme in hadron structure and hadron spectroscopy using a versatile spectrometer setup at the CERN SPS M2 beam-line.

89. Antinuclei in space?

Cosmic-ray particles are a valuable probe of galactic processes. The correct interpretation of new data has the potential for breakthrough results, such as the solution to the puzzle of cosmic-ray origin and the discovery of the effects of dark matter annihilation. In addition, the theoretical understanding of composite (anti)nuclei formation in hadronic collisions, while tightly connected to...

120. Applications with continuous neutron beams at IFMIF-DONES

The IFMIF-DONES facility will produce neutrons with energies up to 50 MeV and will be one of the most intense neutron source in the world in that energy range. Irradiations, to test fusion materials, will take place close to the Lithium target, in the high-flux test module (HFTM) where the maximum of flux is encountered. A large part of the neutrons will interact with the irradiated materials...

163. Atomic and Quantum Physics at FAIR: Perspectives and Challenges of the SPARC Collaboration

FAIR with its intense ion beams provides outstanding and worldwide unique experimental
conditions for extreme matter research in atomic physics. The research program of the
Stored Particles Atomic physics Research Collaboration SPARC comprises the study of
highest electromagnetic fields provided by heavy highly-charged ions and their interaction
with matter. A broad variety of...

66. Beta decay studies for the prediction of the reactor antineutrino spectrum

In recent years the prediction of the antineutrino spectrum from reactors has attracted considerable attention in both the nuclear and neutrino physics research communities. The reason is two-fold. Comparison of the measured spectrum with model calculations based on the Huber-Mueller model (considered the standard of the field), showed a deficit in the number of the detected neutrinos at short...

6. Biophysics Collaboration

The abstract describe the Biophysics Collaboration at FAIR and its activities (www.gsi.de/bio-coll)

105. Canadian Nuclear Physics Research context for the NuPECC Long Range Plan

Contribution from Canadian Institute of Nuclear Physics. Information based on the Canadian Subatomic Physics Long Range Plan 2022-2026.

157. Challenging the Standard Model with Neutron Beta Decay Experiments

Neutron beta decay experiments provide weak interaction parameters, the nucleon axial form factor $g_\mathrm{A}$ and the element of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element $V_\mathrm{ud}$. In the framework of effective field theories, they serve to restrict couplings beyond the left-handed vector and axial-vector couplings of the Standard Model. The number of observables largely exceeds...

60. CMS HI Physics at LHC Runs 3+4 and Beyond

This Letter of Interest constitutes the CMS Heavy Ion Group contribution to the 2024 NuPECC Long Range Plan

159. Community input for NuPECC long range plan 2024: Laser spectroscopy of pionic helium atoms using the 590 MeV ring cyclotron facility of PSI

We recently carried out laser spectroscopy of three-body metastable pionic helium atoms (${\pi}{\rm ^4He}^+\equiv\pi^-+{\rm ^4He}^{2+}+e^-$) at the Paul Scherrer Institute's (PSI) 590 MeV ring cyclotron facility. This constituted the first laser excitation of an atom containing a meson. Of the many known varieties of pionic atom, ${\pi}{\rm ^4He}^+$ retains an anomalously long,...

164. Contribution from INFN-LNS

Contribution from INFN-LNS

27. Contribution of NA61/SHINE to NuPECC Long Range Plan 2024

This document presents the NA61/SHINE (and future collaborations based on) physics goals concerning the study of the diagram of high-energy nuclear collisions and the measurements requested by the long-baseline accelerator neutrino experiments in Japan and in the US.
The NA61/SHINE setup has been recently significantly upgraded.
This upgrade opens the possibility to study the nuclear...

107. Contribution of Small and Medium Particle Accelerator Facilities in Europe to NuPECC LRP-2024

Small and medium particle accelerator facilities can play an important role in the future of nuclear physics. Their collective relevance on instrumentation development, nuclear physics applications and training is highlighted. A succint description of nine of these facilities (AIFIRA in Bourdeaux, Atomki in Debrecen, CANAM in Rez, CMAM in Madrid, CNA in Seville, IFIN-HH in Magurele, IST in...

141. Contribution to the NUPECC LRP from the EU members of the CLAS Collaboration

Studying the structure and properties of hadrons in terms of their elementary
constituents is one of the main axes of research in hadron physics, at the
intersection between nuclear and particle physics. For this goal, European
scientists carry out experiments at Jefferson Lab (JLab, USA) with the Hall-B
large-acceptance spectrometer CLAS12 and a 11-GeV polarized electron
beam. The...

151. Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensing

Content: Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensing has become the method of choice for measuring the soil moisture in applications like controlled irrigation, precision farming, drought forecast and flood prevention. CRNS uses neurons produced by spallation processes caused by cosmic rays in the upper atmosphere. The sensitivity of the CRNS method to soil moisture is based on the fact that the albedo of the...

49. Density matrices of finite nuclei (systems) and related quantities in the Cartesian representation

The one-body and two-body density matrices in coordinate space and their Fourier transforms in momentum space are studied for a nucleus (a nonrelativistic, self-bound finite system). Unlike the usual procedure, suitable for infinite or externally bound systems, they are determined as expectation values of appropriate intrinsic operators, dependent on the relative coordinates and momenta...

140. DESTIN at PERLE : A demonstrator for future ambitious experiments on electron scattering off exotic fixed targets

Electron scattering off nuclei is a unique high-precision probe to study the structure of hadronic systems such as nuclei and nucleons, and the only one that gives access to the spatial distribution of nuclear charge and magnetism. Since the pioneering work of R. Hofstadter distinguished by the Nobel prize in 1961, decades of experimentation have led to unprecedented progress in the...

126. Development of high-precision, low-mass tracking detectors based on CMOS monolithic Pixel Sensors (CPS)

The need to perform reliable heavy flavor tagging and precise low momentum tracking forms a common measurement challenge for many experiments in hadron and particle physics. Performing the measurements in high particle density final states, as those occurring in heavy ion collisions or multi-jet events, calls for silicon pixel detectors combining an outstanding granularity with ultra-light...

91. Early Career Scientists

Early Career Scientists have always contributed significantly to the recent research in nuclear and hadron physics. In the future, a more active role of young researchers would be desirable.

131. ECT*: the European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas

The European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas (ECT*) was established by a joint action of the European Community of Nuclear Physics. Founded in 1993, it is a globally recognised centre for research in theoretical nuclear physics in the broadest sense of the word. The international visibility is largely driven by its annual programme of workshops and training...

95. Effective interactions for mean-field and beyond-mean-field calculations

This contribution outlines current ongoing and planned research for the
development of the nuclear density functional theory (DFT) and energy density
functional (EDF) approaches for nuclear-structure calculations. Even though
present EDF models can provide robust predictions for many nuclear observables,
it has become evident that they have reached their limits of applicability and
new...

46. Electron and Positron Beam Facility at DESY

This contribution concerns a future electron and positron beam facility at DESY. The usefulness of such a facility is discussed in the context of the Two-Photon Exchange eXperiment (TPEX), and briefly describes the goals of that experiment. Beyond TPEX we discuss other physics opportunities that could be available with beams of electrons and positrons on a fixed target.

86. Electron Scattering and Neutrino Programs

In this Letter-of-Interest, we describe the important role of electron-nucleus (e−A) scattering experiments in an era when current (NOvA, T2K) and future (Hyper-Kamiokande, DUNE) accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiments will depend on precision modeling of the corresponding neutrino-nucleus ($\nu$ − A) process to achieve their goals. The benefits also apply to other measurements...

160. Electron – Rare-Ion Scattering for electromagnetic precision data on nuclear structures

In this contribution to the call for input to the NuPECC Long Range Plan 2024, we describe an initiative, which aims at equipping the unique arsenal of heavy-ion storage rings of GSI and the Modularized Start Version of the international FAIR facility at Darmstadt with a state-of-the-art electron accelerator for the studies of in-ring electron scattering reactions on stored radioactive ion...

36. Equation of state of hot and exotic nuclear matter

Abstract: The INDRA and FAZIA collaborations aim at investigating the nuclear equation of state by using heavy ion collisions in a wide range of beam energies and isotopic composition. These two multi detector arrays, now coupled at GANIL, allow detecting a large set of reaction products over the largest dynamical range, good isotopic resolution and with low energy identification...

70. European Rare Stable Isotope Supply EURASIS for research – searching a way out from supply shortage

Abstract

The supply shortage of enriched stable samples (ESI), severely aggravated by the Russian aggression against Ukraine and its consequences, calls for a solution with the aim to warrant a secure provision of European research institutions. Without these basic materials essential fundamental research activities will come to a halt, once the still available limited reserves are...

130. European Research Infrastructure Beam Services (ERIBS)

This contribution describes the work will be done within the ERIBS (European Research Infrastructure Beam Service) Collaboration, whose aim is to develop and disseminate the know-how of the European Electron Cyclotron Resonance (ECR) ion source groups to improve the properties and variety of available ion beams to better service the scientific program of the EURO-LABS research infrastructures.

56. Exploring the high-density region of the QCD phase diagram with CBM at FAIR

Input of the CBM Collaboration for the NuPECC Long Range Plan 2024

101. Fission research via direct ion counting techniques

Since the discovery of nuclear fission in 1938, its properties have been extensively investigated with various techniques, mostly relying on fission product kinematics and gamma spectroscopy. We propose to utilize present and upcoming ion catching, trapping and detecting facilities across Europe to develop novel methods for fission research, which are independent of and complementary to legacy...

67. French input on hadron physics

The French QCD community is organised within a Groupement de Recherche (GDR), a CNRS structure with participants from all three French actors of fundamental research: CNRS, CEA and universities. The GDR QCD federates theorists and experimentalists who share a common interest: the study of the strong interaction. Thus, it plays a propelling role in the discussions concerning the future of...

68. French input on strongly interacting matter

The French QCD community is organised within a ’Groupement de Recherche’ (GDR), a CNRS structure with participants from all three French actors of fundamental research: CNRS, CEA and universities. The GDR QCD federates theorists and experimentalists who share a common interest: the study of the strong interaction. Thus, it plays a propelling role in the discussions concerning the future of the...

112. Gamma decay of the giant resonances and pygmy states excited in hot and cold nuclei

In this contribution the present status and perspectives for study of giant resonances and pygmy states by the gamma decay are described. This topic concerns following issues: link between deformation of compound nucleus and residues; Jacobi shapes; pygmy states excited in compound nucleus and at ground state; and gamma decay of isoscalar giant quadrupole resonance excited at ground state. The...

20. General input from Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, IFIN-HH, Romania

he present document was elaborated by scientists from IFIN-HH, Romania involved in various nuclear physics activities such as experiments, theory and technological applications and was discussed in the Scientific Council of the institute. It does not represent a list of the ongoing research activities from our institute but rather a very short summary of our view regarding the topics and...

137. German participation in a new experiment at the CERN LHC: ALICE 3

In this document, we describe the strong interest of German research groups in ALICE 3, a new heavy-ion experiment at the CERN LHC.

45. Glueballs

Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is the theory of the hadronic interactions. It is an elegant theory whose full non perturbative solution has escaped our knowledge since its formulation more than 40 years ago. The theory is asymptotically free and confining. A particularly good test of our understanding of the nonperturbative aspects of QCD is to study particles where the gauge field plays a more...

100. HADES White Paper

serving as part of the community input to the 2024 NuPECC Long Range Plan

75. Hadron Interaction

Obtaining a comprehensive picture of the strong force has been a long-standing problem. A complete understanding of the strong interaction can be obtained when a unified picture demanded by SU3 symmetry is obtained. Over the past decades there has been a significant effort in studying hadron interactions, with a plethora of experimental constraints obtained primarily from nucleon scattering...

5. Hadron phenomenology at the new era of particle accelerators

The discovery of a plethora of new resonances, the so-called XYZ states, is challenging the paradigm of the quark model in which mesons and baryons are classified according to the valence quark-antiquark and three-quark configurations, respectively. The new era of particle accelerators has the potential to confirm the observations in previous experiments and to provide complementary insights....

94. Hadron Physics at the energy and intensity frontier

To whom, it may concern,
In response to the invitation received by Prof. Dave Ireland on September 19, 2022, I'm submitting some thoughts to be considered as possible input for the NuPECC Long Range Plan (LRP2024 ) process.
I'm available to provide any further details or clarifications in case of need.
Thanks for the opportunity provided to me to contribute to such an important process.
My...

76. Hadron Spectroscopy

Hadron spectroscopy provides us with an invaluable tool to study QCD in the non-perturbative regime and allow us to obtained an insight of the origin of confinement and the role gluonic excitations play in
the excited spectrum of mesons and baryons. Study of the spectrum, combining novel experimental tools as well as partial wave analyses allow us to map out how quarks interact forming...

98. Hadron spectroscopy and structure with functional methods

We outline the prospective contributions of functional methods towards hadron spectroscopy and structure calculations within the NuPECC Long Range Plan 2024. Based on a body of existing work, this approach offers opportunities towards a microscopic description of ordinary as well as exotic hadrons such as glueballs, hybrid mesons, tetraquarks, pentaquarks and even light nuclei. Functional...

72. Hadron Structure

We report on a selection of on-going and future programs devoted to hadron structure topics of study. Precision mapping of the internal structure of hadrons, extracting the spatial distribution and the motion of quarks and gluons within them, is a key priority in nuclear physics in the coming decades. The activities summarised in our report will vastly improve our knowledge on the dynamics...

124. Health applications of Nuclear Physics at GANIL

With the increase of lifespan, cancer has become the primary cause of death in many countries and ranks the second place in the world behind cardiovascular disease. In this context, radiotherapy plays a major role in the treatment of patients. Among the new promises of this technique, three modalities are of great interest to decrease the side effects of treatments and improve the quality of...

84. Heavy-ion fusion reactions at low energies

see attached file

129. High resolution spectroscopy of exotic nuclei through direct reactions studies using the GRIT array

We present the prospects for the next 10 years of our approach to investigate the properties of nuclei far from stability and the related implications to nuclear astrophysics. This approache is based on 1. the study of direct reactions (DR), mainly transfer reactions, induced by radioactive-ion beams (RIB) to be delivered at present or future European facilities and 2. the associated technical...

122. High Spin States and Exotic Shapes in Medium-Heavy Nuclei

Super-deformed bands known in some nuclei close to $^{40}$Ca can be interpreted in terms of the shell model, cluster approach or mean-field theory. It is expected that the SD bands in this region may be related, through the emission of $\alpha$-particles or high-energy photons, to the rapid rotation of hot highly deformed compound nucleus. However, the lack of the high-spin experimental data...

153. HISPEC-DESPEC LONG-RANGE PLAN

The HISPEC-DESPEC collaboration proposes to investigate the nuclear structures of exotic
nuclei in all regions of the nuclide chart, with the aim of providing insight in the evolution of the
shell structure and exotic nuclear shapes in uncharted territory. HISPEC-DESPEC (H/D) collaboration
key scientific goals are achieved exploiting the uniqueness of GSI-FAIR radioactive beams
produced by...

108. HPC resources for nuclear physics community

STFC Daresbury Laboratory – Long term plan with HPC for NP.
C. Unsworth and M. Labiche
Contact: Carl.unsworth@stfc.ac.uk; marc.labiche@stfc.ac.uk

High performance computing resources for the nuclear physics community.

Modern theoretical and experimental nuclear physics is inextricably linked to computing due to the complexity and volume of data involved. It can make economic sense...

32. Imaging nuclear structure and quark-gluon plasma at the Large Hadron Collider

It has been established recently that nuclear collision experiments performed in high-energy collider machines, such as the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), provide a novel tool to observe signatures of the shape and the radial structure of atomic nuclei. By taking snapshots of the state of the colliding ions at the interaction point, such experiments open an access route to a range of...

43. Input collated by the UK Nuclear Physics Advisory Panel

Input collated by the UK Nuclear Physics Advisory Panel

73. Input for the NUPECC Long Range Plan 2024

MONSTRE (Modeling Nuclear Structure and Reactions) is a research project sponsored and financed by the National Scientific Committee for Theoretical Physics of the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN). MONSTRE gathers several Italian groups working on the theory of nuclear structure and reactions (see www0.mi.infn.it/monstre for the researchers involved). The main goal of our...

8. Input for the NuPECC Long Range Plan 2024 compiled by THE ISOLDE COLLABORATION COMMITTEE on behalf of THE ISOLDE COLLABORATION

This document gives input on key scientific areas for the NuPECC Long Range Plan (LRP) 2024 from the ISOLDE Collaboration, as represented by the ISOLDE Collaboration Committee.
Since this is a wide scientific community based around a specific facility, this is best done within the context of the operating status and technical opportunities for the facility. The very broad scientific reach of...

154. Input from the NL heavy-ion groups for the NuPECC Long-Range Plan

This document summarizes the input of the Dutch heavy-ion community for the NuPECC Long Range Plan. Our input consists of a short description of our current activities and plans, and we express our common view for the future studies of QCD matter in the Netherlands.

38. Input of the Belle II Collaboration to the NuPECC Long Range Plan 2024

The Belle II physics potential for hadron spectroscopy, inputs to g-2, fragmentation functions, proton form factors, measurements of \alpha_S and hadronic \tau decays is outlined.

143. Input of the INFN community involved in the EIC to the NuPECC Long Range Plan 2024

This document has been prepared by the representatives of the two major INFN initiatives related to the Electron Ion Collider, as input to the discussion on the next NuPECC Long Range Plan 2024. The activities and interests of this large community (more than 100 researchers) are described, including the foreseen contribution to the EIC science and R&D program. The synergies between these...

103. Input to NUPECC LRP from ISOLDE Solenoidal Spectrometer Collaboration

This document gives input into scientific areas for the NuPECC Long Range Plan 2024 from the ISS collaboration as complementary information to that submitted by the ISOLDE collaboration. This document briefly introduces the solenoid concept for measuring direct reactions, as implemented in the ISOLDE Solenoidal Spectrometer, highlights initial physics exploitation and current areas of...

39. Isomers in nuclear structure, astrophysics and applications

Isomer physics is a cross-cutting activity that is symbiotic with exotic-beam facilities, leading to exceptional scientific opportunities. With half-lives ranging from nanoseconds to years, there are many different experimental arrangements that can take advantage of the extended isomer survival times.

11. Isotopes for climate changes and ocean acidification (ClimOcean): corals and bivalves

This research (ClimOcean) focuses on the study of the growth of coral and mollusk ecosystems affected by the acidification of marine and oceanic waters. The project is based on the use of radiotracers and ad hoc nuclear instrumentation techniques. Specifically, we propose to carry out a study of the influence of the acidification of the seas and oceans on the uptake of Calcium of various...

133. JLab12 Input for NUPECC LRP

This document describes the research activity pursued by several Italian collaborators at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab), VA, USA, investigating the emerging structures and phenomena of the strong interactions. A longer than 8 years compelling program has been already approved, based on the electron beam of unique intensity and polarization and a variety of polarized...

82. Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro

Description of LNL Research Infrastructure

150. LEMING: A next generation atomic physics and gravity experiment using muonium (M) atoms

In the recently approved LEMING experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI, Switzerland), we are developing a high-intensity, low-emittance atomic beam of muonium (M $\bf=\mu^+ + e^-$), which is amenable to next generation precision spectroscopy of M, and may allow a direct observation of the M gravitational interaction. Measuring the free fall of M atoms would be a test of the weak...

139. Long Range Plans for Interdisciplinary research at GANIL and with Swift Heavy Ions

The main advantage of GANIL for interdisciplinary research is the large choice of ions and a wide range of energies (ARIBE, IRRSUD, SME and HE) at one place featuring various unique online experimental devices. Thus linear energy transfer (LET) available at GANIL covers a wide range of electronic to nuclear stopping power ratio. The variety, the versatility and the accessibility of GANIL ion...

136. Long Range Plans for Interdisciplinary research at GANIL, technical development

The main advantage of GANIL for interdisciplinary research is the large choice of ions and a wide range of energies (ARIBE, IRRSUD, SME and HE) at one place featuring various unique online experimental devices. In this document, we summarized some of the instrumental development foreseen in the medium/long range term at GANIL for the interdisciplinary community.

128. Long Range Plans for Materials Science with Swift Heavy Ions at GSI/FAIR

Abstract
For materials science and many interdisciplinary fields, the uniqueness of heavy ions lies in the enormous energy densities each projectile deposits within a highly localized volume. This drives the local atomic structure far from equilibrium and leads to phase transitions and complex structural modifications along the ion trajectory. Ion-induced material modifications are of...

158. Long range plans for the determination of the nuclear equation-of-state from sub- to supra-saturation densities using heavy-ion collisions

List of co-authors with collaboration affiliation:
A. Le Fèvre: FOPI, ASY-EOS
K. Agarwal: CBM
J. Aichelin: QMD
T. Aumann: R3B
A. Chbihi: INDRA-FAZIA
M. Colonna: BUU, TMEP,FAZIA, FARCOS, CHIMERA
M.D. Cozma: QMD
E. De Filippo: CHIMERA, ASY-EOS, FARCOS
Hannah Elfner: SMASH
T. Galatyuk: HADES
Ch. Hartnack: QMD
Y. Leifels: FOPI, ASY-EOS, GSI Research Direction
S. Pirrone: ASY-EOS,...

69. LUNA Contribution to the NuPECC Long Range Plan

Accurate knowledge of thermonuclear reaction rates is important in understanding the generation of energy, the luminosity of neutrinos and the synthesis of elements in stars or during the Big Bang nucleosynthesis.
Due to the Coulomb barrier, the reaction cross section $\sigma(\mathrm{E})$ drops nearly exponentially with decreasing energy E. Thus, it becomes increasingly difficult to measure...

92. Medical radioisotope research

Nuclear medicine provides optimum or even unique diagnostic or therapeutic modalities for a wide range of illnesses. Second to nuclear energy in terms of population served, but far less controversial it is THE showcase of nuclear physics applications in daily life.
Nuclear medicine relies on the availability of a variety of radionuclides and while the “traditional” radionuclides are still...

109. Muonic atoms for fundamental and applied nuclear science

Muons are elementary particles that can orbit the atom as electrons do, but with a mass 207 times higher so that they have a Bohr radius 207 times smaller and x rays with energy 207 times higher. This allows to accurately measure those x rays, which can be applied for element identification (e.g., in heritage research) or to study nuclear-induced perturbations to extract absolute charge radii...

34. Muonic-Atom Spectroscopy and Impact on Nuclear Structure and Precision QED Theory

Recent progress in laser and x-ray spectroscopy of muonic atoms offers promising long-term possibilities at the intersection of atomic, nuclear and particle physics. The planned experimental program will further improve on the precision of nuclear charge radii. Laser spectroscopy measurements will determine the ground-state hyperfine splitting (HFS) of muonic hydrogen and additionally improve...

47. Neutrino scattering and nuclear structure

Neutrino-nucleus interactions play a pivotal role in several domains at the forefront of new physics developments, including oscillation experiments, astrophysical neutrino investigations and beyond-standard-model searches. A thorough understanding of the nuclear physics processes involved is therefore crucial. Both experimental and theoretical developments are needed to achieve this goal. In...

57. New facilities: HIMB & TATTOOS (as part of IMPACT)

The High Intensity Proton Accelerator (HIPA) facility at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), with its world-leading intensity 50 MHz, quasi-continuous proton beam, represents one of the strongest assets in the line-up of Swiss large-scale research infrastructures. The proposed IMPACT project at HIPA entails two new installations to be constructed in close proximity to each other. The first,...

9. New opportunities with Radioactive Molecules

Since the first laser spectroscopy of a short-lived radioactive molecule at
CERN (Nature 581, 2020), research opportunities with radioactive molecules
are being explored worldwide (CERN-INTC-2021-017, arXiv:2010.08709).
Diatomic molecules containing stable isotopes have provided the most stringent
upper bound to the existence of an electron electric dipole moment (EDM)
(Nature 562, 2018)....

58. nEXO: Neutrinoless double beta decay search beyond $10^{28}$ year half-life sensitivity

The nEXO Collaboration

81. Nuclear Data for Innovation in Advanced Nuclear Technologies: New Opportunities and Developments at CERN n_TOF

Neutron cross section data play an important role in the field of nuclear energy as well as in different disciplines of innovation and advanced nuclear technologies. In this contribution we present the abilities and perspective of the n_TOF facility at CERN in front of the latest detector developments and upgrades that took place after the 2nd CERN Long Shutdown period. Thanks to the new...

162. Nuclear data for Science and Technology

Nuclear data for Science and Technology

97. Nuclear Lattice Effective Field Theory

Nuclear lattice effective field theory is a novel and powerful tool in the theory of nuclear structure and reactions. I discuss a number of exciting results on topics such as nuclear thermodynamics, perturbative nuclear structure calculations beyond first order perturbation theory, a three-dimensional tomography of the carbon nucleus and first steps towards a modelindependent computation of...

28. Nuclear Physics and Fundamental Symmetries at the CERN-ELENA Antiproton Facility

CERN’s antiproton complex AD/ELENA is a unique facility for antimatter research. Although the main target is the formation of antihydrogen for spectroscopy and gravity measurements and other high precision CPT tests done with antiprotons, a strong and rapidly growing community including several experiments (AEgIS, ASACUSA, GBAR and PUMA) is exploring new avenues using low-energy antiprotons as...

71. Nuclear physics at LHCb: future plans and prospects

This document reports on future plans and prospects regarding the heavy-ion physics studies for the LHCb collaboration at CERN.

149. Nuclear Physics at the ILL high-flux reactor

Thermal-neutron induced reactions are a powerful probe for nuclear structure and fission phenomena. The high flux of thermal neutrons provided by the research reactor of the Institut Laue Langevin (ILL) is used for studying the structure of nuclei produced in (n,$\gamma$) and neutron-induced fission reactions. ILL is currently operating two nuclear physics instruments, FIPPS and PN1-LOHENGRIN....

113. Nuclear Physics from Lattice QCD

The lattice QCD community in Europe is comprised of several collaborations, as well as smaller groups. Together they are part of an international research effort, and many of the larger collaborations have participating researchers from outside Europe. Major collaborations are ALPHA, BMW, CLS, ETMC, HotQCD, QCDSF, and UKQCD, each with its own simulation and analysis codes. The community has a...

65. Nuclear Physics research and plans in Italy

The nuclear physics programs of the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) within the Italian laboratories are discussed. The accelerator upgrade projects and the new facilities will be described together with the future experimental possibilities.

19. Nuclear Physics Research at the Extreme Light Infrastructure Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP) Facility

Extreme Light Infrastructure - Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP) is the pillar of the pan-European ELI project dedicated to nuclear physics driven by extreme electromagnetic fields.
ELI-NP will host two systems that generate extreme light beams with unique features: a system of two high-power ultra-short-pulses lasers with the highest proven power in the world (10 PW each) and a variable energy...

93. Nuclear science with Gravitational-wave astronomy: Unique opportunities in an emerging new field

The first detection of gravitational waves from merging neutron star binary systems and the
accompanying observations of electromagnetic counterparts in 2017 brilliantly showed the enor-
mous potential with multi-messenger astronomy for nuclear physics. Neutron stars comprise
the highest densities of matter that can stably exist in the cosmos. The gravitational-wave sig-
nals emitted from...

85. Nuclear theory in the high energy limit: Small-x physics and the Color Glass Condensate

This contribution discusses the physics of small $x$, in particular through the viewpoint of the Color Glass Condensate high energy effective theory of QCD. Small-$x$ theory is rapidly advancing in pushing perturbative calculations to higher accuracy in the weak coupling expansion. Likewise, the consistency of the description of different scattering processes is continuously being improved...

156. NuPECC Long Range Plan – Research Facilities in Bonn

The University of Bonn hosts three major facilities for research in fundamental nu- clear, hadron, and particle physics: the electron accelerator ELSA, the synchronous cyclotron, and the new research and technology center for detector physics FTD. This document describes the current state of the facilities and presents the future plans.

96. Opportunities with high-intensity stable ion beams at Coulomb-barrier energies

Scientific and technical advances allow exploring ever-more exotic nuclear systems that approach the limits of stability in the chart of nuclides. Different regions can be accessed in different production pathways, including fusion-evaporation, fragmentation, fission, and multi-nucleon transfer reactions. Neutron-deficient nuclei including those at or near the N = Z line as well as beyond the...

134. Outreach

Outreach is the interaction of research with society as scientists share their methods, results and open questions in a dialogue with society. The activities show the benefits of research to the public, spark interest and enthusiasm among (young) people, connect science and society and allow participation in the process of knowledge gain.
We want to strengthen and connect existing successful...

152. Perspectives for precision experiments with heavy-ion storage rings

This is a brief contribution on perspectives of precision experiments at heavy-ion storage rings in the realm of nuclear structure, atomic- and astrophysics. We concentrate on experiments with secondary beams of heavy ions, where these can either be stable or long-lived nuclei in specific, high atomic charge states, or unstable nuclides.

42. Perspectives of Nuclear Astrophysics Activities at CERN n_TOF

This contribution describes activities in the area of nuclear astrophysics carried out at the n_TOF facility at CERN. Recent scientific and technological achievements are outlined followed by a discussion of future perspectives and key areas for development.

26. Photo-nuclear reactions of light nuclei for propagation and disintegration of ultra-high energy cosmic-rays

In this contribution to the call for input for the NuPECC Long Range Plan 2024, we describe the PANDORA project, which aims to systematically measure the photonuclear response of nuclei with mass lighter than iron. There is strong need of good quality photo-nuclear reaction data for most of the light nuclei of astrophysical interest below iron. The situation is further crippled by the...

78. Physics at the DESIR facility of SPIRAL2/GANIL

DESIR is the future low-energy facility of SPIRAL2 at the GANIL laboratory in Caen, France. DESIR will receive low-mass beams from SPIRAL1 produced via projectile or target fragmentation and mainly fusion-evaporation products from S3-LEB. In the future, fission fragments should be available, once the SPIRAL2 production building is constructed. If needed, the beams from these complementary...

99. Physics avenues with the Super Separator Spectrometer (S3) at GANIL-SPIRAL2

The Super Separator Spectrometer (S3) is under development in the framework of the SPIRAL2 facility at GANIL. S3 has been designed to extend the capability of the facility to perform experiments with radioactive nuclei produced with extremely low cross sections, taking advantage of the very high intensity stable beams of the superconducting linear accelerator of SPIRAL2.
The S3 project...

79. Plans for End-to-End Optimization of Experiments

It has become possible, with the advent of differentiable programming, to create models of experimental apparatus that include the stochastic data-generation processes, the full modeling of the reconstruction and inference procedures, and a suitably defined objective function, along with the cost of any given detector configuration, geometry and materials. This enables the end-to-end...

54. Possible Extension of the Three-body Force by the Unitary Clothing Transformations Method in the Faddeev Equations

The Kharkov potential is a recent field theoretical model of nucleon-nucleon interaction that has been built up in the framework of the instant form of relativistic dynamics starting with the total Hamiltonian of interacting meson and nucleon fields and using the method of unitary clothing transformations. The latter connect the representation of “bare” particles and the representation of...

33. Precision studies of hard and electromagnetic processes in nuclear collisions: the NA60+ experiment at the CERN SPS

The region of large baryo-chemical potential of the QCD phase diagram represents one of the current frontiers in the exploration of strongly interacting matter. Experimentally, one of the most promising avenues is the study of rare probes of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) and the hadronic phase, as produced by colliding heavy nuclei in the center of mass energy range between 6 and 20 GeV. The...

146. Proposal for nuclear theory section for the NuPECC Long-Range Plan 2024

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29. PSI facility input

We provide a brief overview of the infrastructure for nuclear and particle physics research avaialble at the Swiss Paul Scherrer Institute. We mention ongoing efforts in fundamental research as well as related applications and future opportunities.

104. Quantum computing for nuclear physics

Since the recent realization of the first quantum computer demonstrators, the field of quan- tum computing (QC) has seen a remarkable growth worldwide. In the physics community, much of the interest is motivated by the exciting potential of these technologies to simulate strongly correlated many-body systems. Despite the formidable challenges in designing algo- rithms suitable to harness the...

155. Quantum Information and Quantum Technologies for Nuclear Physics

In recent years, quantum-information processing has seen rapid advances, on the level of devices as well as our theoretical understanding of quantum many-body systems. These hand us paradigmatically novel computational methods in the form of quantum simulators, quantum computers, and tensor networks. Simultaneously, fundamental questions such as about the role of entanglement in quantum...

21. Radioactive Ion Facility at IFIN-HH (RIF@IFIN) – a new photofission RIB infrastructure with focus on refractory elements

The Radioactive Ion Facility at IFIN-HH (RIF@IFIN) is a new research infrastructure proposed in Romania dedicated to production of radioactive ion beams (RIBs) through Ion Guided Isotope Separation On-Line (IGISOL) method and of radioisotopes for medical application. Initially proposed as a station on gamma beam line of ELI-NP, the production of RIBs through photofission in thin foils placed...

87. Radioisotope production for medical applications at IFMIF-DONES

The International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility - Demo Oriented NEutron Source (IFMIF-DONES) is a single-sited novel Research Infrastructure for testing, validation, and qualification of the materials to be used in a fusion reactor. the unprecedented neutron flux available could be exploited without modifying the routine op-eration of DONES. In addition, it is also under designed the...

13. Rare Isotope Production and TArget Manufacturing (RITA)

The result of a nuclear physics experiment is always only as good as all its components. This includes the target as an indispensable element. With this contribution, we want to draw attention to the importance of isotope and target production for nuclear physics research in general. We show which aspects should be given special attention in the future, which areas need special support and...

30. RESEARCH AT SMALL ACCELERATORS - CANAM RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE

In addition to large international infrastructures, a number of facilities of a national character can be identified in the nuclear physics infrastructure ecosystem. These are usually referred to as “small-scale” facilities, the “small-scale” designation must of course be understood in the context of nuclear physics and costs and scope of its frontier exploration. Small accelerators providing...

77. Road map to open science in nuclear physics

European science is moving quickly towards Open Science, accelerating the share of scientific knowledge with society. With the rise of the European Open Science Cloud framework federating many scientific communities, it is clear that any initiative in Open Science should be grounded on the aim to fully operate within the EOSC framework.

Open Science represents an opportunity for the...

111. Role and importance of nuclear electromagnetic moments and radii

Abstract: The electromagnetic moments and charge radii of nuclear ground- and excited states provide nuclear-model independent insight into the structure of atomic nuclei, and serve as critical benchmarks for the testing and development of theoretical models. Measurement of these observables in exotic isotopes, here defined as being far from the valley of stability or at high nuclear...

22. Scientific and technological challenges of the AGATA tracking array in the next decade

AGATA is the European state-of-the-art high-resolution gamma-ray spectrometer, solely built from highly segmented high-purity Ge detectors. It is capable of measuring gamma rays from a few tens of keV to beyond 10 MeV, with unprecedented efficiency, millimetric position resolution for individual gamma-ray interactions, and very high count-rate capability. AGATA is a collaboration of 13...

61. Search for the μ → eγ Decay with the MEGII Experiment at Paul Scherrer Institut: Status and Perspectives

The search for charged lepton flavor violating processes is an extremely powerful
tool for exploring new physics beyond the standard model of particle physics. The
MEGII experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland aims at detecting
the lepton flavor violating μ → eγ decay by stopping positive muons in a very thin
target and measuring emitted photons and positrons with the best...

74. Searches for BSM physics at Radioactive Ion Beam facilities

Executive Summary
The present contribution stresses the importance and potential impact of low energy precision experiments for probing Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) physics at radioactive beam facilities for the next decade. Correlation experiments including MORA and WISArD, as well as precision beta spectrum shape measurements, like b-STILED, are currently ongoing, and new experiments...

14. Searching for the EDM of the neutron with the n2EDM experiment

This is the contribution of the nEDM collaboration for the NuPECC Long Range Plan 2024. \newline
We point out the high relevance of the search for a
neutron electric dipole moment (nEDM).
We sketch the theoretical challenges and worldwide
experimental efforts, with the nEDM collaboration
setting up the n2EDM apparatus at the ultracold neutron source
of the Paul Scherrer Institute as the...

41. Several ideas in Nuclear astrophysics

This document is a collection of several projects, short, medium and long term, all related to different challenges in nuclear astrophysics.

16. Shedding light on nuclear aspects of neutrinoless double beta decay by double charge exchange reactions

The relevance of direct nuclear reactions as tools for the determination of nuclear matrix elements of neutrinoless double beta decay (0vbb) is presented. In this multi-disciplinary framework, at the frontier of nuclear and neutrino physics, special emphasis is given to double charge exchange (DCE) reactions induced by heavy ions, which link the same nuclear states involved in 0vbb-decay....

110. Short-Range Correlations in Nuclei

Structure and dynamics of nuclear many-body systems are determined by the interactions between nucleons. Short-Range Correlations (SRC) cause pairs of strongly interacting nucleons whose distance is comparable to their radii, and individual momenta are larger than that of mean-field nucleons. We propose a novel research program at GSI-FAIR (R³B and HADES) with hadronic probes to study SRCs, as...

148. Small-scale accelerator facilities and interdisciplinary applications: Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) in Nuclear Physics, Nuclear Astrophysics and Environment

• AMS is a truly interdisciplinary method for the detection of rare isotopes: tracing and dating of anthropogenic activities and environmental processes, as well as investigations in fundamental scientific questions. Research areas include archaeology; astrophysics, nuclear and particle physics; but also oceanography, atmospheric science, climatology, environmental physics and biological and...

18. Soreq Applied Research Accelerator Facility (SARAF)

The Soreq Applied Research Accelerator Facility (SARAF), under construction at Soreq Nuclear Research Center (Yavne, Israel), is a national infrastructure for applied and basic research and training in various areas of nuclear science and engineering, which will be operated as an international user facility. It is based on a medium-energy (up to 40 MeV), high-current (up to 5 mA)...

12. Storage Rings for the Search of Charged-Particle Electric Dipole Moments (EDM)

We propose a storage ring to search for electric dipole moments of charged particles with unprecedented sensitivity. This requires the design of a new type of accelerator namely an all-electric storage ring capable of simultaneously maintaining clockwise and counter-clockwise polarized beams – a prime task for the accelerator community. The EDM observable is embedded in the time development of...

15. Strangeness nuclear physics

Neutron stars are rich laboratories for physics, combining all four fundamental interactions and
many phenomena associated with them under extreme conditions. One of the most intriguing
questions is: what do we find in the core of such a compact object?
There has been a wide consensus in nearly all theoretical approaches for neutron star matter
that hyperons may appear in the inner core of...

127. Strongly interacting matter at nonzero temperature and density: lattice QCD

The study of the thermodynamics of strong-interaction matter is of fundamental importance for our understanding of the properties of nuclear matter as it is described by Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). Lattice QCD has long been contributing as a first-principles approach to answer nonperturbative questions on the QCD phase diagram at vanishing and small baryon chemical potential and the...

4. Studies of nuclear electromagnetic and weak moments as a gateway to identify novel properties of fundamental interactions

We describe prospects and challenges in experimental and theoretical studies of nuclear electromagnetic and exotic moments that have a high discovery potential in the domain of fundamental interactions of nature.

145. Study for a high-energy ep/eA programme using LHC/FCC proton beams

Following the publication of the updated CDR, CERN continues to support studies for the LHeC and the FCC-eh as potential options for the future and to provide input to the next Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics. The study is to further develop the scientific potential and possible technical realization of an ep/eA collider and the associated detectors at CERN, with emphasis...

48. Target Ion Source Systems for Radioactive Ion Beams: perspectives

Radioactive Ion Beam production using the Isotope Separation On-Line (ISOL) Method allows the exploration of the nuclear matter by creating exotic nuclei far from the valley of stability. To improve the performances of the method beyond the present limits, the variety of the primary beams and targets combinations and thus the diversity of the ISOL facilities must be reinforced, as well as the...

147. The Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN)

The Belgian Nuclear Research Centre SCK CEN, one of the largest research institutions in Belgium, was founded in the 1952 to study the applications of nuclear energy, but since then it has expanded its knowledge to a wide range of research fields. In this contribution, we address research infrastructures, laboratories, education & outreach programs of relevance for the nuclear physics community.

62. The DARWIN Observatory

The DARWIN collaboration (www.darwin-observatory.org) aims at building the ultimate liquid xenon-based, underground direct detection dark matter detector, with a WIMP dark matter sensitivity limited only by irreducible neutrino backgrounds. The core of the detector will have a 40 tonne liquid xenon target operated as a dual-phase time projection chamber. The unprecedented large xenon mass, the...

64. The Electron Ion Collider - Exploring the mysteries of the building blocks of matter

The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) is a powerful new facility to be built in the United States at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory in partnership with Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. The EIC will study the substructure of protons, neutrons, and atomic nuclei with the most powerful electron microscope, combining versatility, resolving power and...

135. The Electron-Ion Collider: a U.S. facility for the European community to explore the mysteries of the building blocks of matter

This document is submitted as input to the NuPECC Long Range Plan 2024 by three European members of the EIC Users Group Steering Committee (Vice Chair, one “at-large” member, and the EU Representative). We submit the document on behalf of the international EIC Users Group (EICUG) community, but we specifically represent 335 European members of the EICUG (25%) based in 80 institutions (30% of...

80. The extreme matter properties from nuclear physics and astrophysics

This proposal answers to the call for community input for the NuPECC Long Range Plan 2024. It describes how future nuclear physics experiments, combined with astrophysical observations, will help the understanding of extreme matter properties. After an introduction to the scientific context and objectives where we illustrate how nuclear physics and astrophysics are both employed in a...

118. The IMFIF-DONES DEMO-Oriented Neutron Source

The need of a neutron source for the qualification of materials to be used in future fusion power reactors have been recognized in the European fusion program since many years. The construction and exploitation of this facility is presently considered to be in the critical path for the realization of the Fusion Demonstration Power Plant (DEMO). This neutron source should be able to produce...

44. The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment

The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment is designed to measure a high-precision integral spectrum of the endpoint region of T2 beta decay, with the primary goal of probing the absolute mass scale of the neutrino. After a first tritium commissioning campaign in 2018, the experiment has been regularly running since 2019, and in its first two measurement campaigns has already achieved...

106. The Mainz Energy-recovering Superconducting Accelerator MESA: high-precision physics at a low-energy accelerator

The Mainz Energy-recovering Superconducting Accelerator MESA is a low-energy high-intensity electron accelerator for precision experiments with polarized electrons at beam energies below 155 MeV. It will be operated by the Institute of Nuclear Physics, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz in Germany. A rich experimental program for high-intensity electron scattering experiments is currently...

50. The method of unitary clothing transformations in the theory of nucleon--nucleon scattering

The clothing procedure, put forward in quantum field theory (QFT) by Greenberg and Schweber, is applied for the description of nucleon--nucleon ($N-N$) scattering. We consider pseudoscalar ($\pi$ and $\eta$), vector ($\rho$ and $\omega$) and scalar ($\delta$ and $\sigma$) meson fields interacting with $\frac{1}{2}$ spin ($N$ and $\bar N$) fermion ones via the Yukawa--type couplings to...

119. The Mu-MASS experiment at PSI

The Mu-MASS experiment at PSI focuses on studying the spectroscopic properties of Muonium (M), the positive-muon/electron bound state.
The experiment was proposed in 2019 and since then is running approximately 10 days/year at the PSI low energy muon (LEM) facility. After successfully demonstrating the production and detection of a 2S metastable M beam (J. Janka et al. EPJC 80, 804 (2020)),...

37. The Mu3e Experiment

We review the search for charged lepton flavour violation with the Mu3e Experiment at PSI, which will extend sensitivity by four orders of magnitude. We also cover the various other search that will be performed at Mu3e.

90. The n_TOF Facility at CERN: Perspectives and New Opportunities

This document provides a general overview of the status of the activities carried out at the CERN n_TOF facility by the n_TOF Collaboration, together with a description of the perspectives for further development, in view of the NuPECC Long Range Plan (LRP) 2024.

123. The Neutrons For Science facility in the next decade

The neutrons for science (NFS) is the running facility of SPIRAL-2 located at GANIL (France). It provides intense neutron beams in the 1-40 MeV range, produced by the interaction of proton or deuteron beams, delivered by the LINEAR accelerator of SPIRAL-2, with lithium or beryllium converters. The intense neutrons flux available and the large time-of-flight area make NFS a perfect facility for...

144. The PANDA experiment at FAIR

Why and how the strong interaction forms the matter we are made of, is one of the most challenging questions in contemporary physics. The PANDA experiment at FAIR will be a uniquely versatile facility to answer this question. The stored high-precision antiproton beam from the HESR will be the only one in this energy region and will offer access to hitherto unexplored territory in the physics...

17. The Potential of a TeV-Scale Muon-Ion Collider - the ultimate QCD frontier

We propose the development of a muon-proton and muon-nucleus collider, referred to as a ``muon-ion collider'' (MuIC) [1,2], that utilizes the existing hadron accelerator facilities at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) or CERN while seeding, or leveraging, the development of a high-energy muon storage ring at the same site. A muon-proton center-of-mass energy of up to 1 TeV at BNL (6.5 TeV...

142. The Spanish Nuclear Physics Network (FNUC) framework for contributions to the NuPECC Long Range Plan 2024

This document provides the Spanish context of the Nuclear Physics Network (FNUC) to set the framework for contributions to the NuPECC Long Range Plan 2024. The document discusses the use of large-scale facilities for nuclear structure and reaction studies, including the leading CERN infrastructures ISOLDE and n_TOF, other European laboratories, and the upcoming FAIR facility for NUSTAR. It...

59. Theory of Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay

We propose to improve the calculation of nuclear matrix elements that are crucial
to extract information from an eventual signal of neutrinoless double-beta decay. We plan to estimate the unknown short-range mechanism associated with light Majorana neutrino exchange and to develop the many-body methods that enable calculations of the corresponding nuclear matrix elements.

35. TOF-DONES: a new neutron time of flight facility coupled to the IFMIF-DONES accelerator in Granada

The IFMIF-DONES (International Fusion Material Irradiation Facility-DEMO Oriented Neutron Source) 40 MeV and 125 mA deuteron accelerator offers unique opportunities not only for material research but also for fundamental and applied nuclear physics. The Spanish nuclear physics community has proposed the construction of a neutron time of flight facility (TOF-DONES) driven by the deuteron...

31. Towards a complete description of nuclear fission

Nuclear fission is a complex phenomenon that results from a collective movement of large amplitude during which a heavy nucleus deforms more and more until it splits into two lighter nuclei. Fission is a rich laboratory for studying structural, dynamical and statistical properties of nuclei. It is also highly relevant for understanding the origin of heavy elements in the universe. In addition,...

117. Towards the 4pi PARIS gamma calorimeter – scientific case and technical challenges

The next 5-10 years perspectives of the development of the novel gamma calorimeter PARIS towards the 4pi geometry are described. The most interesting physics cases, which can be studied with present and upgraded to 4pi version of PARIS are listed. The main technical challenges, which have to be overcome, are discussed.

114. Towards the understanding of the properties of strongly interacting matter on a microscopic level

The most interesting but also most challenging task :
I. Study of the transition between hadronic and partonic dominated matter in heavy-ion reactions in energy range of $\sqrt{s}=3$ and $\sqrt{s}=7.7$ GeV as indicated by experimental data (e.g. the deviation from the quark scaling of the elliptic flow $v_2$, the ‚horn‘ in the $K/\pi$ ratio etc).
A consistent description of such a...

115. Ultra-fast silicon detectors for nuclear physics and medical applications

Silicon sensors have been used in experiments for several dozen years, mainly for the accurate measurement of the position of charged particles. However, to deal with the increasing luminosity of particle physics experiments and, therefore, increasing particle track densities, research and development of those sensors have recently also been focussing on precise time measurements, enabling...

23. Unitarity and Universality

Nuclear theory has witnessed a revolution over the last two decades or so with the development of low-energy effective field theories (EFTs) of QCD and initio methods (AIMs) for the solution of the many-body Schroedinger equation. We plan to improve the EFT expansion by including the proximity of nuclear systems to two-body unitarity, test its consequences in few- and many-body systems with...

40. Utilizing Multi-Nucleon Transfer Reactions to access the terra incognita

Neutron-rich nuclei are essential for understanding the origin of heaviest elements in nature. The rapid neutron capture process proceeds through the still largely unknown region of the nuclear chart. To produce heavy neutron-rich nuclei inaccessible at current radioactive beam facilities, multi-nucleon transfer (MNT) reactions are utilized or pursued at many laboratories around the world. MNT...

102. Vision for the GANIL long range plan

The present contribution describes the vision of the GANIL management for the future of the facility at the moment of the NUPECC survey for its new long-range plan. It is based on the conclusions of the recent review by the international committee chaired by Michel Spiro. This review had been mandated
by the two funding members of GANIL (CEA and CNRS) and was based on a survey of the GANIL...