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Nuclear Physics News International Volume 27, Issue 3 July–September 2017 FEATURING: Nuclear Data • Deuteron Electric Dipole Moment • 0νββ Decay 10619127(2017)27(3) Nuclear Physics News Volume 27/No. 3 Nuclear Physics News is published on behalf of the Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee (NuPECC), an Expert Committee of the European Science Foundation, with colleagues from Europe, America, and Asia. 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Vol. 27, No. 3, 2017, Nuclear Physics News 1 Nuclear Physics Volume 27/No. 3 News Contents Editorial The NuPECC Long Range Plan 2017: Perspectives in Nuclear Physics by Angela Bracco .......................................................................................................................................................... 3 Feature Articles A New Look to Nuclear Data by E. A. McCutchan, D. A. Brown, and A. A. Sonzogni ................................................................................................ 5 COSY Prepares the First Measurement of the Deuteron Electric Dipole Moment by Paolo Lenisa and Frank Rankmann ......................................................................................................................... 10 Searching for 0νββ Decay in 136Xe: Toward the Ton-Scale and Beyond by T. Brunner and L. Winslow ....................................................................................................................................... 14 Facilities and Methods The Actual AMS Capabilities at the University of Cologne by Alfred Dewald ........................................................................................................................................................... 20 PANDA: Strong Interaction Studies with Antiprotons by Klaus Peters, Lars Schmitt, Tobias Stockmanns, and Johan Messchendorp ........................................................... 24 Twenty Years of VERA: Toward a Universal Facility for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry by Robin Golser and Walter Kutschera ......................................................................................................................... 29 Meeting Reports The 26th International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions, Quark Matter 2017 by Russell Betts, Olga Evdokimov, and Ulrich Heinz ................................................................................................... 35 Jefferson Lab Hosts Workshop on New Scientific Applications of its Low Energy Recirculator Facility by S. Benson and G. Krafft ............................................................................................................................................ 37 News and Views ESF After ESF: The Launch of Science Connect by Jean-Claude Worms .................................................................................................................................................. 38 An Important Milestone: Groundbreaking Ceremony for the FAIR Accelerator Facility by Ingo Peter ................................................................................................................................................................. 40 Calendar..................................................................................................................................... Inside back cover Cover Illustration: The cover depicts a CAD drawing of the PANDA Detector in the foreground. The background shows the same drawing in kaleidoscopic reflections through a PANDA DIRC bar, which is made of highly polished fused silica – see article on page 24. 2 Nuclear Physics News, Vol. 27, No. 3, 2017 editorial The NuPECC Long Range Plan 2017: Perspectives in Nuclear Physics The process involved in the prepa- stadtium” in Darmstadt, from 11–13 ration of LRPs requires dedicated ef- January 2017. The Town Meeting was fort from many physicists of the nu- attended by almost 300 participants, clear physics community and from all including many young scientists. The NuPECC Members. programme contained, in addition Similar to several countries in the to the presentation of the Working world beyond the European boundar- Groups, sessions on future facilities: ies, today Nuclear Physics is defi ned FAIR, the ISOL facilities (SPIRAL2, as a fi eld including different research ISOLDE, and SPES), ELI-NP, NICA, domains sharing the diffi cult but stim- and the Dubna Superheavy Element ulating task to study nuclear matter Factory, as well as a presentation for in all its forms and of exploring their CERN from its scientifi c director. For possible applications. This knowledge the international context the over- NuPECC is essential if one wants to address views given by the Chairs of NSAC Long Range Plan 2017 several key issues for the understand- (USA) and ANPhA (Asia) were much Perspectives ing of the different stages concern- appreciated. The Town Meeting was in Nuclear Physics ing the origin and the evolution of concluded by a general discussion. the universe. The subfi elds of nuclear The recommendations with their physics defi ned by NuPECC span the wording were extensively discussed, areas of nuclear physics and its ap- not only at the town meeting but also 19 June 2017 was a special day plications: Hadron Physics, Proper- at the following NuPECC meetings. for NuPECC. Indeed, that day the ties of Strongly Interacting Matter It is not possible here, due to space “Long Range Plan for Nuclear Re- (at extreme temperatures and baryon limits, to quote them directly in their search in Europe” was released after number density), Nuclear Structure complete form and thus the reader is approximately 20 months of work for and Dynamics, Nuclear Astrophysics, invited to read our webpage (http:// its preparation. From the time it was Symmetries and Fundamental Interac- www.nupecc.org/pub/lrp2017.pdf). announced, at the end of 2015, the nu- tion, as well as Applications and Soci- In short, the recommendation sec- clear physics community was looking etal Benefi ts. tion includes the following: (1) a rec- forward to having it ready since this Two Conveners and three Liaison ommendation for the construction and document plays the role of an impor- Members of NuPECC were assigned operation of the fl agship facility FAIR tant reference and guide for the fi eld to each Working Group corresponding with its experimental programme at for at least the next six years. to one of the subfi elds given above. the four scientifi c pillars APPA, CBM, The delivery of long range plans The Working Groups were given the NUSTAR, and PANDA; (2) support (LRPs) represents the core of Nu- charge to delineate the most exciting for construction, augmentation, and PECC’s mission, which is “to provide physics in their subfi elds, to high- exploitation of world-leading ISOL advice and make recommendations light recent achievements and future facilities in Europe; (3) the exploita- on the development, organisation and perspectives. Draft reports from the tion of the existing and emerging fa- support of European nuclear research Working Groups were presented and cilities (the latter being ELI-NP and and of particular projects.” In the past discussed in internal workshops and at NICA); (4) support for ALICE and four LRPs were issued, in November NuPECC Meetings. the heavy-ion program at the LHC 1991, December 1997, April 2004 and A Town Meeting to discuss the with the planned experimental up- December 2010. NuPECC LRP was held at the “darm- grades; (5) support to the completion The views expressed here do not represent the views and policies of NuPECC except where explicitly identifi ed. Vol. 27, No. 3, 2017, Nuclear Physics News 3 editorial of AGATA in full geometry; (6) Sup- worldwide, outside Europe (the larg- Acknowledgments port for Nuclear Theory. In addition, est fraction