Nuclear Physics: Exploring the Heart of Matter
2013

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The principal goals of the study were to articulate the scientific rationale and objectives of the field and then to take a long-term strategic view of U.S. nuclear science in the global context for setting future directions for the field. Nuclear Physics: Exploring the Heart of Matter provides a long-term assessment of an outlook for nuclear physics.

The first phase of the report articulates the scientific rationale and objectives of the field, while the second phase provides a global context for the field and its long-term priorities and proposes a framework for progress through 2020 and beyond. In the second phase of the study, also developing a framework for progress through 2020 and beyond, the committee carefully considered the balance between universities and government facilities in terms of research and workforce development and the role of international collaborations in leveraging future investments.

Nuclear physics today is a diverse field, encompassing research that spans dimensions from a tiny fraction of the volume of the individual particles (neutrons and protons) in the atomic nucleus to the enormous scales of astrophysical objects in the cosmos. Nuclear Physics: Exploring the Heart of Matter explains the research objectives, which include the desire not only to better understand the nature of matter interacting at the nuclear level, but also to describe the state of the universe that existed at the big bang. This report explains how the universe can now be studied in the most advanced colliding-beam accelerators, where strong forces are the dominant interactions, as well as the nature of neutrinos.

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276 pages · 7 x 10 · paperback
ISBN Paperback: 0-309-26040-X
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-26041-8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/13438

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National Research Council. 2013. Nuclear Physics: Exploring the Heart of Matter. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

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Front Matter i-xvi
Summary 1-8
1 Overview 9-29
2 Science Questions 30-149
Highlight: Diagnosing Cancer with Positron Emission Tomography 150-152
3 Societal Applications and Benefits 153-181
Highlight: Future Leaders in Nuclear Science and Its Applications: Stewardship Science Graduate Fellows 182-185
4 Global Nuclear Science 186-208
Highlight: The Fukushima Event - A Nuclear Detective Story 209-212
5 Nuclear Science Going Forward 213-226
Highlight: Nuclear Crime Scene Forensics 227-229
6 Recommendations 230-236
Appendixes 237-238
Appendix A: Statement of Task 239-239
Appendix B: Meeting Agendas 240-243
Appendix C: Biographies of Committee Members 244-252
Appendix D: Acronyms 253-260

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