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Vol. 30, No. 1, 2020, Nuclear Physics News 1 Nuclear Physics Volume 30/No. 1 News Contents Editorial Why Do We Strive to Have EU Integrating Activities for Nuclear Science Facilities? by Angela Bracco and Muhsin Harakeh ............................................................................................................................................. 3 Laboratory Portrait JINR at the Forefront of Nuclear Research by Boris Sharkov ................................................................................................................................................................................. 4 Feature Articles Novel Excitation Modes in Nuclei: Experimental and Theoretical Investigation on Multiple Chiral Doublets by Q. B. Chen and J. Meng ................................................................................................................................................................. 11 Impact and Applications Characterization of Radiation Effects and Ion Tracks with Spallation Neutron Probes by Maik Lang, Eric O’Quinn, Jörg Neuefeind, and Christina Trautmann ......................................................................................... 16 The Sound of Ions: Acoustic Detection of High-Energy Beams by Walter Assmann and Katia Parodi ................................................................................................................................................. 20 Verification of Arms Control Treaties with Resonance Phenomena by Areg Danagoulian .......................................................................................................................................................................... 25 Meeting Reports Founding of the International Biophysics Collaboration (IBC) by Marco Durante, Yolanda Prezado, and Vincenzo Patera .............................................................................................................. 31 Sunny “Strangeness in Quark Matter” in Bari by Domenico Elia ............................................................................................................................................................................... 32 TAN 19: International Superheavy Element Research Community Met in Wilhelmshaven, Germany by Michael Block, and Ch. E. Düllmann ............................................................................................................................................ 33 JENAS: Astroparticle, Nuclear, and Particle Physicists Meet by Marek Lewitowicz .......................................................................................................................................................................... 35 Quark-Gluon Plasma in Wuhan: Quark Matter 2019 by Heng-Tong Ding, Feng Liu, Ben-Wei Zhang, and Enke Wang ...................................................................................................... 36 News and Views Multimedia Spectacle At the Intersection of Two Infinities at the 45th Congress of Polish Physicists in Krakow (Poland), 13–18 September by Adam Maj and Mark Riley ............................................................................................................................................................. 37 The International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements by Krzysztof Piotr Rykaczewski .......................................................................................................................................................... 38 Superheavy Elements at the Closing Ceremony of the IYPT2019 by Hideto En’yo ................................................................................................................................................................................. 39 In Memoriam In Memoriam: Peter von Brentano (1935–2019) by Rick Casten and Alfred Dewald ..................................................................................................................................................... 40 Cover Illustration: The Gas-Filled Recoil Separator at JINR Dubna - see article on page 4. 2 Nuclear Physics News, Vol. 30, No. 1, 2020 30 1 00 00 editorial Why Do We Strive to Have EU Integrating Activities for Nuclear Science Facilities? The main motivation for the European in Europe for studying the properties of In spite of the great success obtained Commission (EC) to fund Integrating nuclear matter at extreme conditions, and up to now with the ENSAR2 project and Activities (IAs) is to offer transnational developing nuclear physics instrumenta- more recently with STRONG-2020, we access to Europe’s leading research infra- tion and experimental techniques to open think it is important to continue to also structures, including those of Nuclear new scenarios for fundamental research receive EU support for IAs in the years Physics; foster interaction and collabora- and to employ them for new societal and to come. This is not because of the funds tion between a large number of research industrial applications. Special attention per se but rather because of the very high groups at universities and national labora- was also given to the long-term sustain- value that this funding has for the commu- tories via Networking Activities; and help ability perspective of the integration of nity in sowing the seeds for new excellent to develop, for example, new high-tech relevant facilities and related resources. scientific research and developments to be equipment and methods for research and Furthermore, the project was also targeted carried out jointly by several facilities. applications via Joint Research Activities. to new users in order to take full advan- Ever since we started receiving EU Within the field of Nuclear Physics, two tage of new possibilities/opportunities funds under these types of EU calls the different IAs serving different sections offered in particular by the participating collaborative spirit in our community has of the Nuclear Physics community have infrastructures within the European Strat- increased and strengthened considerably. been active since 2004, one focusing on egy Forum on Research Infrastructures. Furthermore, smaller-scale facilities have the study of strongly interacting hadronic The evaluation report of ERINS been motivated to improve their standards matter (Hadron Physics) and the other emphasized that the proposal builds on the in order to comply with EU regulations to focusing on the study of Nuclear Struc- rich experience and successes of the pre- obtain funds for transnational access. ture, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Applica- vious IAs and it recognized the scientific This very important goal for our tions of Nuclear Science. The