Speaker
Dr
Faical Azaiez
(L'institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay)
Description
In the past a sufficiently large number of facilities have been available to the European Nuclear Physics Community delivering stable heavy ion beams at energies close to the Coulomb barrier. Many of these facilities are being recognized as leading European Research Infrastructures. Nevertheless, the last decade has seen the phasing out of several of these facilities in Europe resulting in the consequence that the beam time available to the European Nuclear Physics community has become marginal. In the meantime new physics domains have emerged that require the use of higher beam intensities than available today.
NuPECC has been concerned by this issue and has stressed on many occasions and particularly in its recommendations for the last Long Range Plan, the importance of the existing stable beams facilities for our field. The other important action taken by NuPECC has been to appoint the ECOS working group in order to examine the research perspectives with high intensity stable ion beams, to help categorize existing facilities and their possible up-grades and to identify the opportunities for a dedicated new facility in Europe.
In my talk I will try to show that many nuclear physics questions can be better (or perhaps only) addressed with high intensity stable beams at energies close to the Coulomb barrier and will as well present the ECOS working group conclusions and recommendations.
Primary author
Dr
Faical Azaiez
(L'institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay)
