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Committee On Nuclear Physics
JOHN P. SCHIFFER,
Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago,
Chair
SAM M. AUSTIN,
Michigan State University
GORDON A. BAYM,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
THOMAS W. DONNELLY,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BRADLEY FILIPPONE,
California Institute of Technology
STUART FREEDMAN,
University of California at Berkeley
WICK C. HAXTON,
University of Washington
WALTER F. HENNING,
Argonne National Laboratory
NATHAN ISGUR,
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
BARBARA JACAK,
State University of New York at Stony Brook
WITOLD NAZAREWICZ,
University of Tennessee at Knoxville
VIJAY R. PANDHARIPANDE,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
PETER PAUL,*
State University of New York at Stony Brook
STEVEN E. VIGDOR,
Indiana University
DONALD C. SHAPERO, Director
ROBERT L. RIEMER, Senior Program Officer
Board On Physics And Astronomy
ROBERT C. DYNES,
University of California at San Diego,
Chair
ROBERT C. RICHARDSON,
Cornell University,
Vice Chair
STEVEN CHU,
Stanford University
VAL FITCH,
Princeton University
IVAR GIAEVER,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
RICHARD HAZELTINE,
University of Texas at Austin
JOHN P. HUCHRA,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
JOHN C. MATHER,
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
R.G. HAMISH ROBERTSON,
University of Washington
JOSEPH H. TAYLOR, JR.,
Princeton University
KATHLEEN C. TAYLOR,
General Motors Research and Development Center
J. ANTHONY TYSON,
Lucent Technologies
GEORGE WHITESIDES,
Harvard University
DONALD C. SHAPERO, Director
ROBERT L. RIEMER, Associate Director
KEVIN D. AYLESWORTH, Program Officer
NATASHA CASEY, Senior Administrative Associate
GRACE WANG, Project Assistant
Commission On Physical Sciences, Mathematics, And Applications
PETER M. BANKS,
ERIM International, Inc.,
Co-chair
W. CARL LINEBERGER,
University of Colorado,
Co-chair
WILLIAM BROWDER,
Princeton University
LAWRENCE D. BROWN,
University of Pennsylvania
MARSHALL H. COHEN,
California Institute of Technology
RONALD G. DOUGLAS,
Texas A&M University
JOHN E. ESTES,
University of California at Santa Barbara
JERRY P. GOLLUB,
Haverford College
MARTHA P. HAYNES,
Cornell University
JOHN L. HENNESSY,
Stanford University
CAROL M. JANTZEN,
Westinghouse Savannah River Company
PAUL KAMINSKI,
Technovation, Inc.
KENNETH H. KELLER,
University of Minnesota
MARGARET G. KIVELSON,
University of California at Los Angeles
DANIEL KLEPPNER,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
JOHN R. KREICK,
Sanders, a Lockheed Martin Company
MARSHA I. LESTER,
University of Pennsylvania
M. ELISABETH PATÉ-CORNELL,
Stanford University
NICHOLAS P. SAMIOS,
Brookhaven National Laboratory
CHANG-LIN TIEN,
University of California at Berkeley
NORMAN METZGER, Executive Director
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Preface
The Committee on Nuclear Physics was established by the Board on Physics and Astronomy as part of its decadal survey series, Physics in a New Era. The committee met four times over the course of a year. It heard from program managers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) and solicited input from the nuclear physics community through the American Physical Society's Division of Nuclear Physics. A set of peer readers who were asked by the committee to read the draft report (J. Friar, G. Garvey, K. Gelbke, E. Henley, B. Holstein, and R. Holt) provided valuable perspectives, and their comments had an influence on the report. The comments of the reviewers of the report (see page ix) also provided useful input. The committee would like to thank both groups for their time and help. In addition, the list of individuals who helped with material for the report in a variety of ways is too long to enumerate, and the committee wishes to express its gratitude for this assistance.
As part of the physics survey, the overall objective of the study was to help the general public, the government agencies concerned with the support of science, Congress, and the physics community to envision the future of this field within the nation's overall physics effort.
The report of the committee is in the context of previous planning for the field and follows the reports of the 1972 Physics Survey's Nuclear Physics Panel, chaired by J. Weneser, and the 1986 Physics Survey's Nuclear Physics Panel, chaired by J. Cerny, as well as the planning of the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (NSAC), a joint advisory committee of the NSF and DOE. In particular, the committee drew on the 1996 report Nuclear Science: A Long Range Plan,
prepared by NSAC (available from the Division of Nuclear Physics, Office of Science, DOE, or the Nuclear Science Section, Physics Division, NSF). The NSAC Long Range Plans represent a wide community involvement in shaping the field.
The committee would like to acknowledge the assistance of Donald C. Shapero, director, Board on Physics and Astronomy, and Robert L. Riemer, senior program officer. The committee would especially like to acknowledge the late David Schramm, who started the present review and discussed the committee's task at its first meeting. His unique enthusiasm for physics and profound interest and many contributions to the nuclear physics of astrophysical phenomena are missed in nuclear physics as indeed in all of physics.
The committee would like to acknowledge the support provided by grants from NSF's Physics Division and DOE's Office of Science.
JOHN P. SCHIFFER, CHAIR
COMMITTEE ON NUCLEAR PHYSICS
Acknowledgment of Reviewers
This report has been reviewed by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the National Research Council's (NRC's) Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the authors and the NRC in making the published report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The contents of the review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the deliberative process. We wish to thank the following individuals for their participation in the review of this report:
Gary Adams, Rensselaer Polytechnic University,
Felix Boehm, California Institute of Technology,
Stanley J. Brodsky, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
Richard Casten, Yale University,
Ernest M. Henley, University of Washington,
Jerry Garrett, Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
J. Ross Macdonald, University of North Carolina,
Peter Parker, Yale University,
R.G. Hamish Robertson, University of Washington, and
James P. Vary, Iowa State University.
Although the individuals listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, responsibility for the final content of this report rests solely with the authoring committee and the NRC.
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