EUROPEAN COMMISSION Final Report RESEARCH AND INNOVATION DG Project No: 283286 Project Acronym: HadronPhysics3 Project Full Name: Study of Strongly Interacting Matter Final Report Period covered: from 01/01/2012 to 31/12/2014 Date of preparation: 03/08/2015 Start date of project: 01/01/2012 Date of submission (SESAM): 07/10/2015 Project coordinator name: Project coordinator organisation name: Dr. Carlo Guaraldo ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI FISICA NUCLEARE Version: 2 Final Report PROJECT FINAL REPORT Grant Agreement number: 283286 Project acronym: HadronPhysics3 Project title: Study of Strongly Interacting Matter Funding Scheme: FP7-CP-CSA-Infra Project starting date: 01/01/2012 Project end date: 31/12/2014 Name of the scientific representative of the Dr. Carlo Guaraldo ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI project's coordinator and organisation: FISICA NUCLEARE Tel: +39 06 94032318 Fax: +39 06 94032559 E-mail: [email protected] Project website address: http://www.hadronphysics3.eu Project No.: 283286 Page - 2 of 326 Period number: 2nd Ref: 283286_HadronPhysics3_Final_Report-12_20151007_154307_CET.pdf Final Report Please note that the contents of the Final Report can be found in the attachment. 4.1 Final publishable summary report Executive Summary The HadronPhysics3 project, building on two previous HadronPhysics projects, is strongly anchored within the community of virtually all the European researchers working on hadron physics and strong interactions. More than 50 European institutions and over 2500 European scientists, active in Universities and Research Organizations, have joined forces to provide transnational access to five European hadron facilities. Nine structured networking opportunities, plus the management of the project, and fourteen joint research activities (JRAs), further support the integration of experimental and theoretical research. The collaboration among theorists and experimentalists is a typical feature of the hadron physics community. Previously working in disconnected groups, these scientists, together with many groups outside of Europe that are involved in the networks and JRAs, are now cooperating to the growth of the field. Their activities will have impact on the state of current and future research facilities, on advanced theoretical and experimental methods and on basic understanding geared to the needs of the scientific community in all fields of science and technology. The description of the 29 activities can be found in the HadronPhysics3 website: http://www.hadronphysics3.eu Summary description of project context and objectives The HadronPhysics3 project, building on two previous HadronPhysics projects, is strongly anchored within the community of virtually all the European researchers working on hadron physics and strong interactions. More than 50 European institutions and over 2500 European scientists, active in Universities and Research Organizations, have joined forces to provide transnational access to five European hadron facilities. Nine structured networking opportunities, plus the management of the project, and fourteen joint research activities (JRAs), further support the integration of experimental and theoretical research. The collaboration among theorists and experimentalists is a typical feature of the hadron physics community. Previously working in disconnected groups, these scientists, together with many groups outside of Europe that are involved in the networks and JRAs, are now cooperating to the growth of the field. Their activities will have impact on the state of current and future research facilities, on advanced theoretical and experimental methods and on basic understanding geared to the needs of the scientific community in all fields of science and technology. The description of the 29 activities can be found in the HadronPhysics3 website: http://www.hadronphysics3.eu TRANSNATIONAL ACCESS ACTIVITIES The five Research Infrastructures offering transnational access within HadronPhysics3 represent the state-of-the-art in the field. They are: • Mainz Microtron MAMI, unique in Europe, for studies of electromagnetically induced reactions, paralleled in the world only by the JLAB facility in USA. • GSI, an accelerator complex for ion beams and secondary pion beams, complemented by some 20 experimental areas, equipped with modern spectrometers and detector systems. • COSY, a cooler synchrotron and storage ring, the only cooler ring worldwide, to study hadron induced reactions in the medium energy regime. • Frascati National Laboratories (LNF) with the collider DAFNE provide high purity antikaon beams, unique worldwide for antikaon stopped experiments, paralleled by the J-PARC facility in Japan for antikaon in-flight reaction studies. • the European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and related Areas (ECT*) is the unique and the only Center of this kind in Europe offering to the international community a combination of high-level projects and advanced training programs to young researchers. NETWORKING ACTIVITIES Project No.: 283286 Page - 3 of 326 Period number: 2nd Ref: 283286_HadronPhysics3_Final_Report-12_20151007_154307_CET.pdf The nine Networking Activities link the research programs of the facilities through the coordination of work and resources: • WP2: Theory of Ultra Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions (TURHIC) The TURHIC network is concentrated on the study of: • the properties of the plasma before hadronisation and how the phase transition toward the hadronic world takes place • the modification of hard probes due to the quark gluon plasma through which they pass and the information the hard probes carry about this interaction • the initial thermalisation. • WP3: Feasibility study for an electron-nucleon collider in Europe (ENCstudy) Objective of WP3 is the study of the feasibility of an electron-nucleon collider (ENC) as a future extension of the High Energy Storage Ring (HESR) at the FAIR facility. The ENC study is concentrated on the following two objectives: • physics simulations of benchmark channels • electron ring design study. • WP4: Exciting Physics Of Strong Interactions (EPOS) Objective of EPOS is the study of the structure and dynamics of hadrons aiming at understanding its properties and interactions in terms of the underlying fundamental theory, Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). The physics issues can be grouped in four major tasks: • precision calculations in strong interaction physics • multi-quark and multi-hadron states • lattice methods and applications • nuclear matter and phases of QCD (Nuclear matter and phases of QCD). • WP5: Meson Physics in Low-Energy QCD (MesonNet) The main objective of the MesonNet network is the coordination of light meson studies at different European accelerator research facilities: COSY (Jülich), DAFNE (Frascati), ELSA (Bonn), GSI (Darmstadt) and MAMI (Mainz). The network includes EU researchers carrying out experiments at VEPP-2000 (BINP), CEBAF (JLAB) and B-factories (Babar, Belle, Belle II experiments): these facilities are also included in the network. The work concerns three main objectives: • studies of light meson decays • studies of meson production reactions • common activities. • WP6: Strange Particles in Hadronic Environment Research in Europe (SPHERE) This work package will coordinate studies on hypernuclei at KAOS@MAMI, HYPHI@GSI, PANDA@FAIR with a program which consists of four activities: • Physics: weak decays of hypernuclei and production of exotic hypernuclei are major topics • Experiments: hypernuclear experiments planning and analysis and interpretation of experimental results • Detectors: exchange of know-how to design, to build, to integrate and to operate the new experimental equipments and develop analysis tools • Theory: this activity will serve to join efforts of the various theory groups with the common goal to develop theoretical models appropriate for the analysis of hypernuclear production and structure data, including large-scale numerical simulations. • WP7: A worldwide research networking activity for experiments on QCD at FAIR (FAIRnet) The experiments PANDA (Antiproton Annihilation at Darmstadt) and CBM (Compressed Baryonic Matter) at FAIR will be devoted to studies on the nature of QCD pursuing complementary approaches: PANDA will investigate the properties of the strong force at the quark level, whereas CBM will explore the properties of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions. Project No.: 283286 Page - 4 of 326 Period number: 2nd Ref: 283286_HadronPhysics3_Final_Report-12_20151007_154307_CET.pdf The activity is focused on five objectives: • software development • detector layout optimization • R&D on detectors, FEE and DAQ • construction and tests of prototypes • construction of components for detectors, FEE and DAQ. • WP8: Heavy flavoured probes of deconfined QCD matter (SaporeGravis) The network studying heavy flavored probes of deconfined QCD matter formed in heavy ions collisions at relativistic energies has the following objectives: • to improve the interaction between theorists and experimentalist for the interpretation of the new LHC results • to ensure an effective scientific transition from LHC to FAIR • to support the soft diffractive community in nucleus-nucleus collisions. • WP9: Low-energy antikaon-nucleon and -nuclei interaction studies (LEANNIS) The central objectives of the proposed networking activity LEANNIS are the definition and coordination of studies on low-energy antikaon nucleon (nucleus) interaction in theory and experiments centered in Europe,