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To maintain strong Nuclear Physics programmes, funding agency officials face difficult decisions about the best use of existing facilities (and their associated instruments), new facilities under construction, and new facilities in the planning and R&D phases. Progress in Nuclear Physics should be a globally-coherent response to recognized scientific challenges, using an optimal set of national and regional projects. To achieve this goal, senior funding agency programme managers, laboratory officials, representatives of national advisory bodies, and members of the organized scientific community met under the aegis of the GSF to discuss the future of the field, with emphasis on the role of large programs and projects.
The working group's report contains a description of the major scientific challenges in the field, and describes a global-scale consensus roadmap of major national and regional facilities that reflect an optimal strategy for realising the scientific goals. Specific recommendations for concerted follow-on actions are addressed to the funding agencies and to the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.
Click here for the report.
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