Nuclear Physics The Core of Matter, The Fuel of Stars (1999) / Chapter Skim
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SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS 1 1 Summary and Recommendations Nuclear physics addresses the nature of matter making up 99.9 percent of the mass of our everyday world. It explores the nuclear reactions that fuel the stars, including our Sun, which provides the energy for all life on Earth.
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2 NUCLEAR PHYSICS: THE CORE OF MATTER, THE FUEL OF STARS of matter in terms of quarks and gluons. The United States has made two major and farsighted investments in this program.
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SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS 3 tools needed to produce such unusual nuclei in the laboratory, opening the door to new experiments on the properties of nuclear matter near the limits of binding. The recommendations by this committee should be considered in the context of the careful planning in the nuclear physics community summarized by the Long Range Plans developed by the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (NSAC)
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4 NUCLEAR PHYSICS: THE CORE OF MATTER, THE FUEL OF STARS below. However, it would be remiss if it failed to bring into focus the funding stresses that now severely threaten the field.
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SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS 5 elements of our world. Beams of exotic nuclei hold great promise as tools for probing new nuclear properties and for testing fundamental symmetries at low energies.
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6 NUCLEAR PHYSICS: THE CORE OF MATTER, THE FUEL OF STARS neutrons, and mesons, and the underlying fundamental degrees of freedom -- quarks and gluons. To understand the transition between these regimes, it may be necessary to extend the measurements to even finer resolution, such as that offered by a 15- to 30-GeV electron accelerator.
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SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS 7 nuclear physics techniques, from magnetic resonance to detector technologies to the use of isotopes, have led to remarkable advances in diagnostic and therapeutic power. Nuclear diagnostic techniques have a growing and pervasive role in industry, national security, nonproliferation, geophysics, global climate research, and paleontology.
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