IUPAP Report 41

This updated version IUPAP Report 41 ‘Research Facilities in Nuclear Physics’ was produced in compliance to the mandate of the IUPAP Working Group 9 ‘International Cooperation in Nuclear Physics’, as confirmed by the OECD Global Science Forum. Indeed on a regular scheduled time frame the IUPAP Report 41 was updated, the last one occurring in 2018. We are aware that the nuclear community considers Report 41 as a useful resource, which is made available on the world-wide web, and this has motivated this new update. Here we like to remind that this report consists in two parts. The first part discusses in brief the most important science questions to be addressed in the coming ten years in the seven subfields of nuclear physics (Nuclear Structure, Nuclear Reactions, Nuclear Astrophysics, Hadronic Nuclear Physics, QCD and Quark Matter, Fundamental Symmetries, Applied Nuclear Science, Nuclear Power, and Nuclear Physics Facilities).

In these years new strategic plannings for Nuclear Science are being prepared in Europe and USA and thus after their publication a revision of this part of the report will be made. The second part, updated in the past months, is a compendium of those basic nuclear physics facilities world-wide which are considered genuine user facilities by management. As far as it has been possible the information is complete and accurate. In spite of the obvious difficulties this is probably the most comprehensive summary of the research facilities available to the international nuclear physics community that has been compiled.

We would like to express sincere thanks to all who have contributed to the update of this IUPAP Report 41.

Robert E. Tribble (Chair IUPAP WG 9)

Willem T.H. van Oers (Secretary IUPAP WG 9)

February 2018

Angela Bracco (Chair IUPAP WG 9)

Iris Dillmann (Secretary IUPAP WG 9)

August 2023

Addendum to IUPAP Report 41 (2018): "A Report on Deep Underground Research Facilities Worldwide" (2018)

With the very large efforts in the search for neutrino-less double beta-decay, with kilo ton detectors, the search for interactions of dark matter particles with atomic nuclei, and the search of neutrino oscillations with signatures of CP violation, the latter with humongous detectors, all involving basic nuclear physics/nuclear science aspects, we have asked  for a compilation with descriptions of the deep underground science facilities worldwide to be attached as an addendum to IUPAP Report 41. Nigel J.T. Smith, Executive Director of SNOLAB, has kindly provided this compilation of 15 deep underground science laboratories.

We would like to express thanks to Nigel Smith for providing this set of descriptions.

Willem T. H. van Oers

Secretary of IUPAP WG.9

TRIUMF, September 19, 2018

Appendix to IUPAP Report 41 (September 2019)

Following up on the IUPAP WG.9 Nuclear Science Symposium in 2017 at the RIKEN Tokyo Office, giving an overview of the status of Nuclear Science, it was decided for the 2019 Nuclear Science Symposium at the University of Notre Dame London Global Gateway to highlight a series of nine topics of great current interest (after some discussions with the Office of Nuclear Science in the US Department of Energy).

Here are presented the written versions of the nine topics chosen:

1. “The Physics with an Electron-Ion Collider from a Worldwide Perspective” - Richard G. Milner [MIT]
2. “Quantum Information Science and Nuclear Physics” - Martin Savage [University of Washington]
3. “The Multi-messenger Signals from Gravitational Waves and the Implications for Nucleosynthesis” - Ian Harry [University of Portsmouth]
4. “ISOL-based and Fragmentation-based Production of Rare Isotope Beams” - Maria Jose Garcia Borge [CERN]
5. “Hunting for Dark Matter with Nuclei and Neutron Stars” - Sanjay K. Reddy [INT/University of Washington]
6. “The Structure of the Nucleon” - Marc Vanderhaeghen [Mainz Universitaet]
7. “Neutrinos and Nuclear Physics” - Joshua Klein [University of Pennsylvania]
8. “EDM Searches, a Worldwide Perspective” - Guillaume Pignol [LPSC, Universite de Grenoble]
9. “Searching for New Physics: the Fundamental Symmetry Experiments” - Vincenzo Cirigliano [LANL]

This report is the culmination of an enormous amount of work by many people. I would like to thank all of the laboratory representatives who responded to us and helped to ensure the accuracy of the entries. It is also appropriate to acknowledge the efforts of all those members of WG.9 and C12 who worked hard to solicit information, contribute to the overview sections and provide quality assurance on the final document.
I would like to particularly thank Walter Henning and Wim van Oers for their tireless efforts to produce a high quality report on schedule. I also would like to thank Gabriele-Elisabeth Körner for her help with obtaining some of the laboratory information in this report. It is a pleasure to acknowledge the enormous amount of work that Susan Brown devoted to the preparation and the presentation of this document.
On behalf of the community I would also like to express appreciation to IUPAP for their support (including a financial contribution to printing costs) of this project.

Anthony W. Thomas

Chair WG.9

Jefferson Lab, 2010