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Contents

Preamble

• The Role of NuPECC
• The Preparation of the Report
• The Structure of the Report

Introduction

• Nuclear Structure under Extreme Conditions of Isospin, Mass, Spin and Temperature
• The Physics Case:
• Highlights and Present Activities:
• Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions and the Phase Transitions of Nuclear Matter
• The Physics Case:
• Highlights and Present Activities:
• Quark and Hadron Dynamics
• The Physics Case:
• Highlights and Present Activities:
• Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics
• The Physics Case:
• Highlights and Present Activities:
• Search for Particles or Radiation Incident from outer Space:
• Laboratory Assisted Simulations:
• Neutrino Physics
• The Physics Case:
• Highlights and Present Activities:
• Trends and Directions

Recommendations

• General Recommendations
• Nuclear Structure under Extreme Conditions
• Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions and the Phase Transitions of Nuclear Matter
• Quark and Hadron Dynamics
• Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics, Neutrino Physics, Fundamental Interactions

Towards a Network of Complementary Research Facilities in Europe

• Facilities for the Study of Nuclear Structure under Extreme Conditions
• Facilities to Study Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions and the Phase Transitions of Nuclear Matter
• Facilities to Study Quark and Hadron Dynamics
• Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics, Neutrino Physics and Fundamental Interaction Studies
• Summary and Conclusion

Nuclear Structure under Extreme Conditions of Isospin, Mass, Spin and Temperature

• Introduction
• Nuclei far from Stability
• Exploring the nuclear landscape
• Ground state properties
• Spectroscopy of exotic nuclei
• The Nuclear Response to Temperature and Angular Momentum
• Probing the nucleus at the limits of angular momentum and at extreme shapes
• Onset of Chaos in Warm Nuclei
• Giant Modes in Cold and Hot Nuclei
• Facilities and Instrumentation: How to proceed?
• European Stable-Beam Facilities
• European Radioactive Beam Facilities
• Special instrumentation
• Concluding Recommendations

Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions and the Phase Transitions of Nuclear Matter

• Introduction
• From Nucleus to Nucleon Gas
• Multifragmentation and the liquid-gas phase transition of nuclear matter
• The dynamics of nuclear collisions
• How to proceed
• Hot and Dense Nuclear Matter and Hadron Gas
• Compression, Expansion and the Equation of State
• Status and Highlights
• How to Proceed
• Hadronic Matter at High Energy Density, and the Search for the Quark-Gluon Plasma
• Ultrarelativistic Nuclear Collisions
• The QCD Plasma State
• Status and Highlights
• The Future of High Energy Heavy Ion Physics: The Collider Era
• How to proceed
• Theory
• Large-Scale Computing
• Human Resources
• The ECT* in Trento

Quark and Hadron Dynamics

• Introduction
• Nuclear Structure
• Many Body Problem
• Hypernuclei.
• Hadron Dynamics
• Chiral Dynamics
• Hadrons in the Nuclear Medium
• Hadron Structure
• Meson Spectroscopy
• Glueballs
• Form Factors
• Quark and Gluon Densities
• Strangeness
• New Physics Opportunities
• Semi-inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering
• Hard Exclusive Reactions
• The Nucleus as a Laboratory
• Colour Transparency
• Non-linear Low-x Effects
• How to proceed
• Recommendations

Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics

• Recent Highlights
• Astrophysical Sites
• The early universe
• Stellar evolution
• Type II supernovae
• Explosions in binary systems
• High energy astrophysics
• How to Proceed
• Neutrino detectors
• Cosmic ray observations
• Stable beams
• Screening effects
• Neutron beams
• Radioactive beams
• Nuclear structure
• Weak interactions
• Dense nuclear matter
• Summary

Neutrino Physics

• Introduction
• Astrophysical Limits
• Neutrino Masses
• Neutrino Oscillations
• Electromagnetic Properties
• Neutrino physics at accelerators
• Standard physics experiments
• Searches for Neutrino Oscillations
• The LSND experiment
• The KARMEN experiment
• The CERN experimental programme on neutrino oscillations
• The COSMOS experiment at Fermilab
• Long base-line experiments at accelerators
• Neutrino Experiments at Reactors
• Introduction
• Reactors as Neutrino source
• Status of deuteron experiments
• Neutrino Oscillation Search
• Neutrino-electron scattering
• Solar Neutrinos
• The solar neutrino problem
• New neutrino physics?
• Future experiments
• Atmospheric neutrinos
• Introduction
• The atmospheric neutrino beam
• Internally produced events
• Externally produced events
• Future
• Double beta decay
• Recent results
• Matrix elements
• Comparison with predictions for $\beta\beta 2\nu$ decay.
• Interpretation of the data on $\beta\beta 0\nu$ and $\beta\beta \chi^0$.
• Conclusion and outlook.
• Dark Matter
• Introduction: Basics of Non-Baryonic Dark Matter
• Searches for Non-baryonic Dark Matter. Recent Highlights
• Prospects of WIMP Direct Searches.
• Neutrino Masses
• Mass limits for $\nu_e$
• Mass limits for $\nu_\mu$
• Mass limits for $\nu_\tau$
• Search for Heavy Neutrinos and Neutrino Mixing
• Conclusion and Prospect
• Outlook and recommendations

Fundamental Interactions

• Introduction
• Fundamental symmetries
• Parity violation
• Time reversal
• Other tests
• Conclusions
• Rare muon- and pion-decay modes
• Recommendations

Bibliography

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