Vol. 21 No. 1 - NuPECC

editorial
NuPECC Long Range Plan 2010—Perspectives
of Nuclear Physics in Europe
As announced in the April–June
2009 issue of the Nuclear Physics
News International, the Nuclear Physics
European Collaboration Committee
of the European Science Foundation
have now published their Forward
Look on Nuclear Physics in Europe at
a Presentation Conference in Brussels
(under the Belgian EU Presidency) on
9 December 2010.
The goal of the NuPECC Long
Range Plan 2010 was to bring together
the entire Nuclear Physics community
in Europe to formulate a coherent plan
of the best way to develop the field in
the coming decade and beyond.
Nuclear Physics projects are often
“big science,” which implies large
investments and long lead times. They
need careful forward planning and
strong support from policymakers.
The Long Range Plan 2010 provides
an excellent tool to achieve this. It
represents the outcome of detailed
scrutiny by Europe’s leading experts
and will help focus the views of the
scientific community on the most
promising directions in the field and
create the basis for funding agencies
to provide adequate support.
The full Long Range Plan 2010 can
be found at http://www.nupecc.org/,
together with a booklet and a video
that presents the case to the educated
public. The report is based on the work
of six expert sub-committees in the
fields of Hadron Physics, Phases of
Strongly Interacting Matter, Nuclear
Structure and Dynamics, Fundamental
Interactions, and Nuclear Physics
Tools and Applications.
The main outcome of the exercise
was a list of recommendations grouped
under seven headers and shown below
in an abbreviated version.
ESFRI Facilities
Complete in a timely fashion the
construction of the nuclear physics
facilities on the ESFRI list of largescale
research infrastructure projects
in Europe:
a. FAIR at the GSI site, including its
four pillars, the PANDA antiproton
experiment, the NuSTAR
radioactive ion beam (RIB) facility,
the CBM dense baryonic matter
experiment, and the atomic,
plasma, and applied physics program
APPA.
b. SPIRAL2 at GANIL, including
high-intensity stable ion beams
and ISOL RIBs to study exotic
nuclei.
Major Upgrades
Carry out major upgrades of the
following complementary large-scale
nuclear physics facilities:
Figure 1. Roadmap for Nuclear Physics research infrastructure in Europe.
a. HIE-ISOLDE at CERN (RIBs).
b. SPES at INFN-LNL (RIBs).
c. The AGATA γ-ray detector to be
used at the above facilities.
The views expressed here do not represent the views and policies of NuPECC except where explicitly identified.
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