Abstract
This contribution is based on the plenary presentation at the 14th International Conference on Heavy Ion Accelerator Technology (HIAT-2018) in Lanzhou, China.Heavy-ion storage rings offer unparalleled opportunities for precision experiments in the realm of nuclear structure, atomic physics and astrophysics. A brief somewhat biased review of the presently ongoing research programs is given as well as the future projects are outlined. The limited space does not allow for detailed description of individual experiments, which shall – to some extent – be compensated by extended bibliography.
Highlights
Atomic nuclei are many-body systems which are composed of two types of quantum mechanical particles protons and neutrons
The proof-of-principle experiments addressing proton capture reactions relevant for the astrophysical p-process were performed in the Experimental Storage Ring (ESR) with decelerated 96Ru [165, 166] and 124Xe [167] beams
In this contribution we provided a concise review of the experimental programs at the heavy-ion storage rings
Summary
Atomic nuclei are many-body systems which are composed of two types of quantum mechanical particles protons and neutrons. The nuclei are “natural laboratories” themselves, by studying which one learns about underlaying fundamental interactions. The latter determines our world to be as it is and is the very reason for us to study them as good as we can. Nuclear physics is more than 100 years old and is still one of the rapidly developing fields of research. This development is made possible by the progress in accelerator concepts and detector technologies, as were discussed e.g. at this conference. About 7000 nuclides are expected to exist with majority of yet unknown nuclei belonging to neutron-rich systems [2].
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