Preface

Abstract

Hacienda Cocoyoc, Morelos, Mexico January 7-10, 2019Editors:LUIS ACOSTAInstituto de FísicaUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoPAULINA AMADOR-VALENZUELAInstituto Nacional de Investigaciones NuclearesDANEIL JOSÉ MARÍN-LÁMBARRIInstituto de FísicaUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoINTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEEDaniel Bardayan University of Notre Dame, USAFrancesco Cappuzzello INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, ItaliaOsvaldo Civitarese Universidad Nacional de La Plata, ArgentinaJerry Draayer Louisiana State University, USAAlfredo Galindo-Uribarri Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USAMaría José García Borge ISOLDE-CERN, SwitzerlandReiner Krücken TRIUMF, CanadaJorge López University of Texas at El Paso, USATakashi Nakamura Tokyo Institute of Technology, JapanThomas Papenbrock University of Tennessee, USAJorge Piekarewicz Florida State University, USAStuart Pittel University of Delaware, USAElena Santopinto Università degli Studi di Genova, ItaliaW. Michael Snow Indiana University, USAAdam Szczepaniak Indiana University, USAPiet Van Isacker GANIL, FranceMichael Wiescher University of Notre Dame, USAORGANIZING COMMMITTEELuis Acosta IF-UNAMPaulina Amador-Valenzuela ININDaniel José Marín-Lámbarri IF-UNAMSPONSORSInstituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAMInstituto de Física, UNAMInstituto Nacional de Investigaciones NuclearesDivisión de Física Nuclear de la SMFPREFACEAs every beginning of the year, the 42nd edition of the Symposium on Nuclear Physics was celebrated at the Hacienda Cocoyoc, most precisely, from January 7th to 10th, 2019. The Symposium was early thought as a small meeting designed to bring together some of the leading nuclear scientists around the world. Its most distinctive feature is to provide a forum for specialists in different areas of nuclear physics: both theorists and experimentalists, students, postdocs, senior and junior scientists, in a relaxed and informal environment, providing them with a unique opportunity to exchange ideas and thus, maybe establish new scientific collaborations as well as to upgrade the already existing. After the first meeting in Oaxtepec in 1978, the Symposium was organized every year without interruption, arriving now to its 42nd edition.The scientific program consisted of 36 invited talks and 15 posters on a wide variety of hot topics in contemporary nuclear physics, ranging from the traditional fields of nuclear structure and reactions to nuclear astrophysics, hadronic physics, relativistic heavy ions, nuclear instrumentation and applied nuclear physics.At the meeting there were representatives of many large international collaborations to report on the most recent research progress and the most recent developments in laboratories like Notre Dame, Cyclotron Institute Texas A&M and NSCL/MSU (USA); LUNA-LNGS, LNS and LNL from INFN (Italy); the facilities of TRIUMF (Canada), TU-Dresden (Germany) and iThemba Labs (South Africa), as well as recent results obtained in local Mexican facilities like ININ and LEMA.On the theoretical side, interesting new developments were presented in nuclear dynamics, nuclear structure, Equation of State, neutrino physics, beyond-the-Standard-Model physics, weakly bound nuclei, nuclear clusters, shell model, hadronic physics and QCD.The high quality of the talks and posters, the expertise of the speakers and the broad spectrum of subjects covered in the meeting, shows that nuclear physics continues being a very active area at the frontier of scientific research which establishes bridges between many different disciplines, putting together theoretical and experimental researchers and having an extension to the instrumentation developments and applications. Is important to mention the large amount of young researchers and students that participated in this Mexican meeting, giving a nice spirit to the Symposium.This special volume of Journal of Physics: Conference Series contains 23 contributions that were presented on this Symposium edition. We want to thank the support received from the Nuclear Physics Division of the Mexican Physics Society, the IF-UNAM and the ICN-UNAM.Finally, we would like to thank all our colleagues for their enthusiastic participation in this 42nd edition of the meeting. In particular, we are grateful to the members of the International Advisory Committee for their invaluable suggestions and to the anonymous referees for their time and dedication in helping us to maintain the high standard of the contributions published in the proceedings of the Symposium.We want as well to thank to Nicoll De Los Ríos who repeated as logo-designer for the 42nd edition of this international Symposium.Luis AcostaPaulina Amador-Valenzuela Daniel José Marín-Lámbarri