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   NuPECC REPORT*         DECEMBER 1997         NUCLEAR PHYSICS IN EUROPE: HIGHLIGHTS AND OPPORTUNITIES         edited by:   Jean Vervier, Juha Äystö, Hubert Doubre, Sydney Galès George Morrison, Giovanni Ricco, Dirk Schwalm and Gabriele-Elisabeth Körner                         *Sponsored by CEC      
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
      NuPECC Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee (an Associated Committee of the European Science Foundation)    

Members

 
ÄYSTÖ Juha              Jyväskylä (Finland)
DØSSING Thomas          NBI Copenhagen (Denmark)
DOUBRE Hubert           CSNSM Orsay (France)
FONSECA Antonio C.      Lisbon (Portugal)
GALES Sydney            IPN Orsay (France)
HARAKEH Muhsin          KVI Groningen (The Netherlands)
JASTRZEBSKI Jerzy       Warsaw (Poland)
LEEB Helmut             Wien (Austria)
MARTINO Jacques         Saclay (France)
MIDDELKOOP Ger van      Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
MIGNECO Emilio          Catania (Italy)
MORRISON George         Birmingham (United Kingdom)
MOYA DE GUERRA Elvira   Madrid (Spain)
OSNES Eivind            Oslo (Norway)
RICCO Giovanni          Genova (Italy)
SCHOCH Berthold         Bonn (Germany)
SCHWALM Dirk            Heidelberg (Germany)
SHOTTER Alan            Edinburgh (United Kingdom)
SICK Ingo               Basel (Switzerland)
SKEPPSTEDT Örjan        Göteborg (Sweden)
VERVIER Jean            Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
WAGNER Albrecht         DESY Hamburg (Germany)

Chairman: Prof. Sydney Galès IPN Orsay, B.P. 1, 91406 Orsay Cedex, France Phone: (33) 1 69.15.73.25, Fax: (33) 1 64.46.77.55, e-mail: gales@ipno.in2p3.fr Scientific Secreteriat: Dr. Gabriele-Elisabeth Körner c/o Physikdepartment E12 der Technischen Universität München, D-85748 Garching Tel.: x49-89-289 12293, Fax: x49-89-289 12297, e-mail: sissy.koerner@physik.tu-muenchen.de           Acknowledgement

NuPECC would like to express its gratitude to the members and in particular to the conveners of the working groups, who prepared the core of this report.
 

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

Conveners: A.C. Mueller (France), G. Sletten (Denmark)

S. Åberg (Sweden), J. Äystö (Finland), G. Bollen (CERN), P. F. Bortignon (Italy), T. Døssing (Denmark), W. Gelletly (United Kingdom), J. Gerl (Germany), H. Grawe (Germany), B. Haas (France), M. Harakeh (The Netherlands), H. Hübel (Germany), S. Lunardi (Italy), A.C. Mueller (France), G. Pollarolo (Italy), A. Povès (Spain), K. Riisager (Denmark), M. Schaedel (Germany), A. Shotter (United Kingdom), J. Vervier (Belgium)

Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions and the Phase Transitions of Nuclear Matter

Conveners: J. Schukraft (CERN), J. Stachel (Germany)

 J. Aichelin (France), P. Braun-Munzinger (Germany), L. Csernai (Norway), G. Dellacasa(Italy),    O. Hansen (Denmark), U. Heinz (Germany), N. Herrmann (Germany), U. Lynen (Germany), E. Migneco (Italy), U. Mosel (Germany), E. Plagnol (France), H. Satz (Germany), R. Stock (Germany), H. Wilschut (The Netherlands), J. Zimanyi (Hungary)

Quark and Hadron Dynamics

Convener: B. Frois (France)

C. Amsler (Switzerland), T. Bressani (Italy), F. Close (United Kingdom), D. von Harrach (Germany), F. Kunne (France), J.M. Laget (France), V. Metag (Germany), P. Mulders (The Netherlands), D.O. Riska (Finland), E. de Sanctis (Italy), I. Sick (Switzerland)

Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics

Convener: F.K. Thielemann (Basel)

I. Baraffe (France), H. Bloemen (The Netherlands), I. N. Borzov (Russia), M. Busso (Italy), S. Cooper (United Kingdom), J. Dobaczewski (Poland), R. Durrer (Switzerland), F. v. Feilitzsch (Germany), R. Gallino (Italy), J. Isern (Spain), H.T. Janka (Germany), E. Lorenz (Germany), C. Pethick (Denmark), N. Prantzos (France), C. Rolfs (Germany), J. Vervier (Belgium), M. Wiescher (USA)

Neutrino Physics

Convener: G. Bellini (Italy)

Y. Declais (France), F. von Feilitzsch (Germany), L. Di Lella (CERN), A. Morales (Spain), L. Oberauer (Germany), G. Raffelt (Germany), J.L. Vuilleumier (Switzerland)

Fundamental Interactions

J. Deutsch (Belgium), J. Sromicki (Switzerland), H.-Chr. Walter (Switzerland)

The editors acknowledge the help of Hans-Joachim Körner (Technische Universität München) in preparing the introduction. One of the editors (G.-E. K.) would like to thank her students Martin Freund and Andreas Stolz for their continuous technical support.
 

• 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
• Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions and the Phase Transitions of Nuclear Matter
• Quark and Hadron Dynamics
• Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics
• Neutrino Physics
• 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
• The Nuclear Response to Temperature and Angular Momentum
• Facilities and Instrumentation: How to proceed?
• Concluding Recommendations
• Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions and the Phase Transitions of Nuclear Matter
• Introduction
• From Nucleus to Nucleon Gas
• Hot and Dense Nuclear Matter and Hadron Gas
• Hadronic Matter at High Energy Density, and the Search for the Quark-Gluon Plasma
• Theory
• Quark and Hadron Dynamics
• Introduction
• Nuclear Structure
• Hadron Dynamics
• Hadron Structure
• New Physics Opportunities
• How to proceed
• Recommendations
• Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics
• Recent Highlights
• Astrophysical Sites
• How to Proceed
• Summary
• Neutrino Physics
• Introduction
• Astrophysical Limits
• Neutrino physics at accelerators
• Neutrino Experiments at Reactors
• Solar Neutrinos
• Atmospheric neutrinos
• Double beta decay
• Dark Matter
• Neutrino Masses
• Outlook and recommendations
• Fundamental Interactions
• Introduction
• Fundamental symmetries
• Rare muon- and pion-decay modes
• Recommendations
• Bibliography
• About this document ...