Synergies between astroparticle, particle and nuclear physics

TL;DR

This paper discusses the importance of integrating astroparticle, particle, and nuclear physics to better understand the universe's fundamental components and their interactions, emphasizing collaborative efforts and shared challenges.

Contribution

It highlights the need for interdisciplinary collaboration and shared instrumentation to advance understanding across these interconnected fields.

Findings

Unified approaches enhance scientific progress

Shared instrumentation benefits multiple disciplines

Collaborative data sharing accelerates discoveries

Abstract

One overarching objective of science is to further our understanding of the universe, from its early stages to its current state and future evolution. This depends on gaining insight on the universe's most macroscopic components, for example galaxies and stars, as well as describing its smallest components, namely elementary particles and nuclei and their interactions. It is clear that this endeavour requires combined expertise from the fields of astroparticle physics, particle physics and nuclear physics. Pursuing common scientific drivers also require mastering challenges related to instrumentation (e.g. beams and detectors), data acquisition, selection and analysis, and making data and results available to the broader science communities. Joint work and recognition of these "foundational" topics will help all communities grow towards their individual and common scientific goals. The talk corresponding to this contribution has been presented during the special ECFA session of EPS-HEP 2019 focused on the update of the European Strategy of Particle Physics.