XIV Conference on Theoretical Nuclear Physics in Italy

Abstract

This volume contains the invited and contributed papers presented at the 14th Conference onTheoretical Nuclear Physics in Italy held in Cortona, Italy, from 29–31 October,2013. The meeting was held at the Palazzone, an elegant Renaissance Villa, commissioned bythe Cardinal Silvio Passerini (1469–1529), Bishop of Cortona, and presently owned by the ScuolaNormale Superiore di Pisa.The aim of this biennial Conference is to bring together Italian theorists working in variousfields of nuclear physics to discuss their latest results and confront their points of view in a livelyand informal way. This offers the opportunity to stimulate new ideas and promote collaborationsbetween different research groups.The Conference was attended by 46 participants, coming from 13 Italian Universities and 11Laboratories and Sezioni of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare – INFN.The program of the conference, prepared by the Organizing Committee (Ignazio Bombaci,Aldo Covello, Laura Elisa Marcucci and Sergio Rosati) focused on the following main topics:Few-Nucleon SystemsNuclear StructureNuclear Matter and Nuclear DynamicsRelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions and Quark-Gluon PlasmaNuclear AstrophysicsNuclear Physics with Electroweak ProbesStructure of Hadrons and Hadronic Matter.In the last session of the Conference there were two invited review talks related toexperimental activities of great current interest. Giacomo De Angelis from the LaboratoriNazionali di Legnaro spoke about the INFN SPES radioactive ion beam project. Sara Pirrone,INFN Sezione di Catania, gave a talk on the symmetry energy and isospin physics with theCHIMERA detector. Finally, Mauro Taiuti (Università di Genova), National Coordinator ofthe INFN-CSN3 (Nuclear Physics Experiments), reported on the present status and futurechallenges of experimental nuclear physics in Italy.We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of INFN who helped make the conferencepossible.I Bombaci, A Covello, L E Marcucci, S Rosati