White paper on nuclear astrophysics and low-energy nuclear physics, Part 2: Low-energy nuclear physics

Journal Article · Wed Jan 04 00:00:00 EST 2017 · Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ppnp.2016.11.002· OSTI ID:1342767

Carlson, Joe ^[1]; Carpenter, Michael P. ^[2]; Casten, Richard ^[3]; Elster, Charlotte ^[4]; Fallon, Paul ^[5]; Gade, Alexandra ^[6]; Gross, Carl ^[7]; Hagen, Gaute ^[8]; Hayes, Anna C. ^[1]; Higinbotham, Douglas W. ^[9]; Howell, Calvin R. ^[10]; Horowitz, Charles J. ^[11]; Jones, Kate L. ^[12]; Kondev, Filip G. ^[2]; Lapi, Suzanne ^[13]; Macchiavelli, Augusto ^[5]; McCutchen, Elizabeth A. ^[14]; Natowitz, Joe ^[15]; Nazarewicz, Witold ^[6]; Papenbrock, Thomas ^[8] ; Reddy, Sanjay ^[16]; Riley, Mark A. ^[17]; Savage, Martin J. ^[16]; Savard, Guy ^[2]; Sherrill, Bradley M. ^[6]; Sobotka, Lee G. ^[13]; Stoyer, Mark A. ^[18]; Tsang, M. Betty ^[6]; Vetter, Kai ^[5]; Wiedenhoever, Ingo ^[17]; Wuosmaa, Alan H. ^[19]; Yennello, Sherry ^[15]

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1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
2. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
3. Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States)
4. Ohio Univ., Athens, OH (United States)
5. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
6. Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
7. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
8. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
9. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
10. Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States); Triangle Univ. Nuclear Lab., Durham, NC (United States)
11. Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN (United States)
12. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
13. Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO (United States)
14. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
15. Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)
16. Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
17. Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States)
18. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
19. Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (United States)

Over the last decade, the Low-Energy Nuclear Physics (LENP) and Nuclear Astrophysics (NAP) communities have increasingly organized themselves in order to take a coherent approach to resolving the challenges they face. As a result, there is a high level of optimism in view of the unprecedented opportunities for substantial progress. In preparation of the 2015 US Nuclear Science Long Range Plan (LRP), the two American Physical Society Division of Nuclear Physics town meetings on LENP and NAP were held jointly on August 21–23, 2014, at Texas A&M, College Station, in Texas. These meetings were co-organized to take advantage of the strong synergy between the two fields. The present White Paper attempts to communicate the sense of great anticipation and enthusiasm that came out of these meetings. A unanimously endorsed set of joint resolutions condensed from the individual recommendations of the two town meetings were agreed upon. The present LENP White Paper discusses the above and summarizes in detail for each of the sub-fields within low-energy nuclear physics, the major accomplishments since the last LRP, the compelling near-term and long-term scientific opportunities plus the resources needed to achieve these goals, along with the scientific impact on, and interdisciplinary connections to, other fields.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
• Grant/Contract Number: SC00112704; AC05-06OR23177; AC02-06CH11357; AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1342767
• Alternate ID(s): OSTI ID: 1363626; OSTI ID: 1366487; OSTI ID: 1513401
• Report Number(s): BNL-113453-2017-JA; JLAB-PHY-17-2410; DOE/OR/23177-4088; R&D Project: 05055; 05055; KB0301042; TRN: US1700523
• Journal Information: Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, Vol. 94, Issue C; ISSN 0146-6410
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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