Speaker
Prof.
Nasser Kalantar
(KVI)
Description
With the advent of radioactive ion beams, the study of nuclei has received a lot of
renewed attention in the past two decades. Several facilities have been built or are
being built for the investigation of various characteristics of nuclei under extreme
neutron-to-proton ratios. Substantial progress has been made in the last decades in the
understanding of stable nuclei and those close to the line of stability. However, the
limits of nuclear stability should still be discovered as one moves towards the medium
and heavy nuclei, and the underlying forces governing these complicated many-body
systems need to be better understood. Some of the nuclear characteristics are well
described by the single-particle picture of nuclei and some others by the collective
motions of nucleons inside the nuclei. In this lecture, a short overview of some open
questions in nuclear physics will be given along with long-range plans of the
community on how to move forward.
Primary author
Prof.
Nasser Kalantar
(KVI)
