TY - BOOK
T1 - The Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee (NuPECC) long range plan 2024 for European Nuclear Physics
T2 - NuPECC long range plan 2024
AU - Vaniqui, Ana
AU - Popescu, Lucia
AU - Aït Abderrahim, Hamid
N1 - Score=1
PY - 2024/12/1
Y1 - 2024/12/1
N2 - The Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee (NuPECC) http://nupecc.org/ hosted by the European Science Foundation represents today a large nuclear physics community from 23 countries, 3 ESFRI (European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures) nuclear physics infrastructures and ECT* (European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas), as well as from 4 associated members and 10 observers.
As stated in the NuPECC Terms of Reference one of the major objectives of the Committee is: “on a regular basis, the Committee shall organise a consultation of the community leading to the definition and publication of a Long Range Plan (LRP) of European nuclear physics”. To this aim, NuPECC has in the past produced five LRPs: in November 1991, December 1997, April 2004, December 2010 and November 2017.
The LRP, being the unique document covering the whole nuclear physics landscape in Europe, identifies opportunities and priorities for nuclear science in Europe and provides national funding agencies, ESFRI and the European Commission with a framework for coordinated advances in nuclear science. It serves also as a reference document for the strategic plans for nuclear physics in the European countries.
NuPECC decided to launch the process of creating a new Long Range Plan for European nuclear physics in May 2022 aiming to publish the document in 2024 http://nupecc.org/display=lrp2024/main. The whole process of elaboration of the LRP2024 was supervised by a Steering Committee composed of recognized experts in different sub-fields of nuclear science and of representatives of major nuclear physics facilities, including the chairs of the Astroparticle Physics European Consortium (APPEC) and the European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA). The Committee has also invited two observers from the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (NSAC), USA and the Asian Nuclear Physics Association (ANPhA).
The bottom-up approach which has always played an essential role in the LRPs, was strengthened by the Steering Committee launching an open call in 2022 for contributions to the LRP 2024. The received 159 contributions, submitted by more than 400 individual scientists, collaborations, research infrastructures, and institutions in Europe composed a solid basis for the further analysis and elaboration of the LRP by 11 Thematic Working Groups (TWG). The TWG covered a large set of topics relevant to the development of nuclear physics. Compared to previous versions of the LRP, TWGs on detectors, tools, and topics of current interest were added.
Two intense and productive working meetings, hosted by GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, Germany in October 2023 and in February 2024, were dedicated to the drafting of the LRP recommendations and finalisation of the LRP chapters, respectively. A draft of the full LRP2024 was presented and discussed with the nuclear physics community at a dedicated three-day Town Meeting organised by IFIN-HH/ELI-NP in Bucharest, Romania in April 2024. The Town Meeting, as well as numerous remarks received before and after it, allowed for improving and completing the initial LRP draft. Finally, the LRP 2024 document was approved by NuPECC at its meeting in June 2024 in Lund, Sweden.
The current study, "NuPECC Long Range Plan 2024 for European Nuclear Physics," is the outcome of this cooperative work.
The report’s Executive Summary, which contains NuPECC’s recommendations for the advancement of nuclear physics research in Europe, is followed by in-depth chapters on the scientific and organisational aspects of fundamental and applied nuclear physics research.
Europe has a leading position in nuclear physics research with a wealth of forefront infrastructures and a high-level workforce. It is through the collaborative effort of the European community that it can maintain such a position and advance it further. We strongly hope that this plan will persuade the European financial agencies to look for ways to achieve the goals specified in the suggestions, especially those that exceed a single nation’s capacity.
We would like to express our deep gratitude to the 29 members of the Steering Committee, 35 members of NuPECC, and more than 250 Thematic Working Group conveners and members for their invaluable contributions and strong implication in the whole two-year-long process of the elaboration of LRP2024.
AB - The Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee (NuPECC) http://nupecc.org/ hosted by the European Science Foundation represents today a large nuclear physics community from 23 countries, 3 ESFRI (European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures) nuclear physics infrastructures and ECT* (European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas), as well as from 4 associated members and 10 observers.
As stated in the NuPECC Terms of Reference one of the major objectives of the Committee is: “on a regular basis, the Committee shall organise a consultation of the community leading to the definition and publication of a Long Range Plan (LRP) of European nuclear physics”. To this aim, NuPECC has in the past produced five LRPs: in November 1991, December 1997, April 2004, December 2010 and November 2017.
The LRP, being the unique document covering the whole nuclear physics landscape in Europe, identifies opportunities and priorities for nuclear science in Europe and provides national funding agencies, ESFRI and the European Commission with a framework for coordinated advances in nuclear science. It serves also as a reference document for the strategic plans for nuclear physics in the European countries.
NuPECC decided to launch the process of creating a new Long Range Plan for European nuclear physics in May 2022 aiming to publish the document in 2024 http://nupecc.org/display=lrp2024/main. The whole process of elaboration of the LRP2024 was supervised by a Steering Committee composed of recognized experts in different sub-fields of nuclear science and of representatives of major nuclear physics facilities, including the chairs of the Astroparticle Physics European Consortium (APPEC) and the European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA). The Committee has also invited two observers from the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (NSAC), USA and the Asian Nuclear Physics Association (ANPhA).
The bottom-up approach which has always played an essential role in the LRPs, was strengthened by the Steering Committee launching an open call in 2022 for contributions to the LRP 2024. The received 159 contributions, submitted by more than 400 individual scientists, collaborations, research infrastructures, and institutions in Europe composed a solid basis for the further analysis and elaboration of the LRP by 11 Thematic Working Groups (TWG). The TWG covered a large set of topics relevant to the development of nuclear physics. Compared to previous versions of the LRP, TWGs on detectors, tools, and topics of current interest were added.
Two intense and productive working meetings, hosted by GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, Germany in October 2023 and in February 2024, were dedicated to the drafting of the LRP recommendations and finalisation of the LRP chapters, respectively. A draft of the full LRP2024 was presented and discussed with the nuclear physics community at a dedicated three-day Town Meeting organised by IFIN-HH/ELI-NP in Bucharest, Romania in April 2024. The Town Meeting, as well as numerous remarks received before and after it, allowed for improving and completing the initial LRP draft. Finally, the LRP 2024 document was approved by NuPECC at its meeting in June 2024 in Lund, Sweden.
The current study, "NuPECC Long Range Plan 2024 for European Nuclear Physics," is the outcome of this cooperative work.
The report’s Executive Summary, which contains NuPECC’s recommendations for the advancement of nuclear physics research in Europe, is followed by in-depth chapters on the scientific and organisational aspects of fundamental and applied nuclear physics research.
Europe has a leading position in nuclear physics research with a wealth of forefront infrastructures and a high-level workforce. It is through the collaborative effort of the European community that it can maintain such a position and advance it further. We strongly hope that this plan will persuade the European financial agencies to look for ways to achieve the goals specified in the suggestions, especially those that exceed a single nation’s capacity.
We would like to express our deep gratitude to the 29 members of the Steering Committee, 35 members of NuPECC, and more than 250 Thematic Working Group conveners and members for their invaluable contributions and strong implication in the whole two-year-long process of the elaboration of LRP2024.
KW - Recommendations for Nuclear Applications and Societal Benefits
KW - Recommendations for Nuclear Physics Infrastructures
KW - Recommendations for Nuclear Science – People and Society
KW - Recommendations for Nuclear Physics Tools
KW - Recommendations for Open Science and Data
KW - Recommendations for Fundamental Nuclear Physics
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M3 - ER - External report
T3 - NuPECC Reports
BT - The Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee (NuPECC) long range plan 2024 for European Nuclear Physics
PB - NuPECC
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