Nuclear Physics Mid Term Plan at LNGS

TL;DR

This paper discusses the Nuclear Physics Mid Term Plan at LNGS, highlighting the new Bellotti Ion Beam facility and the workshop's outcomes on future nuclear physics research in an underground environment.

Contribution

It introduces the Bellotti Ion Beam facility at LNGS and details the workshop's discussions on future nuclear physics experiments in underground settings.

Findings

Introduction of the Bellotti Ion Beam facility.

Identification of new research opportunities in underground nuclear physics.

Strategic planning for future experiments at LNGS.

Abstract

The Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) is one of the largest underground physics laboratory, a very peculiar environment suited for experiments in Astroparticle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Fundamental Symmetries. The newly established Bellotti Ion Beam facility represents a major advance in the possibilities of studying nuclear processes in an underground environment. A workshop was organized at LNGS in the framework of the Nuclear Physics Mid Term Plan in Italy, an initiative of the Nuclear Physics Division of the Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare to discuss the opportunities that will be possible to study in the near future by employing state-of-the-art detection systems. In this report, a detailed discussion of the outcome of the workshop is presented.