The laboratori nazionali di legnaro

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Abstract The Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro (LNL) of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) is located in Legnaro, at about 8 km from the center of Padova; it occupies an area of cz 100000 m2 belonging to the University of Padova. The LNL was established as a “Center for Nuclear Research” by the Galileo Galilei Physics Institute of the Uni versity at the beginning of the 1960s The history of nuclear physics in Italy for the past 30 years is strongly re lated to the research activities at LNL The development of the nuclear struc ture studies during the 1960s and 1970s was, in fact, based on the main facilities of LNL, especially the 5.5 MV CN Van de Graaff accelerator (subsequently upgraded to 7 MV), mainly used for extensive investiga tions of the 1f7/2 shell nuclei and of isobaric analogue resonances in the same nuclear region. In the 1980s, the advent of the XTU 16 MV Tandem accelerator opened the era of heavy ion physics in Italy, providing the Italian nuclear physics community with wide res...