Section of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Physical Society (SFJ-PTF) Heavy Ion Laboratory, Warsaw University (HIL) Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków (IFJ PAN) WHITE BOOK on the Future of Low-Energy Nuclear Physics in Poland and the Development of the National Research Infrastructure Editors: A. Maj, K. Rusek, P. Bednarczyk, J. Dudek, B. Fornal, M. Kicińska-Habior, S. Kistryn, M. Lewitowicz, T. Matulewicz, W. Nazarewicz, W. Satuła, J. Skalski, J. Srebrny, E. Stephan, W.H. Trzaska Kraków/Warszawa September 2020 Participants in “The future of low-energy nuclear physics in Poland and the development of national research infrastructure” conference. Photo taken in front of the HIL building on January 14, 2019 by W.H. Trzaska. Technical Editors: Adam Maj, Marzena Wolińska-Cichocka e-mails:
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[email protected] Cover design: Jerzy Grębosz (Cover photo - thanks to The NASA Hubble Space Telescope) ISBN 978-83-959188-0-3 Contents Contents ............................................................................................................................... 3 1. Executive Summary ......................................................................................................... 5 2. Theory of nuclear structure and dynamics ....................................................................... 8 2.1 Few-body systems and nuclear interactions ............................................................ 10 2.2 The atomic nucleus as an open quantum system ....................................................