Year: 2025
Type: preprint
Abstract: This White Paper outlines a coordinated, decade-spanning programme of hadron and QCD studies anchored at the GSI/FAIR accelerator complex. Profiting from intense deuteron, proton and pion beams coupled with high-rate capable detectors and an international theory effort, the initiative addresses fundamental questions related to the strong interaction featuring confinement and dynamical mass generation. This includes our understanding of hadron-hadron interactions and the composition of hadrons through mapping the baryon and meson spectra, including exotic states, and quantifying hadron structure. This interdisciplinary research connects topics in the fields of nuclear, heavy-ion, and (nuclear) astro (particle) physics, linking, for example, terrestrial data to constraints on neutron star structure. A phased roadmap with SIS100 accelerator start-up and envisaged detector upgrades will yield precision cross sections, transition form factors, in-medium spectral functions, and validated theory inputs. Synergies with external programmes at international accelerator facilities worldwide are anticipated. The programme is expected to deliver decisive advances in our understanding of non-perturbative (strong) QCD and astrophysics, and high-rate detector and data-science technology.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Authors: Messchendorp, J. G., Nerling, F., Achenbach, P., Aichelin, J., Albaladejo, M., An, L., Aoki, K., Appagere, G., Baru, V., Bashkanov, M., Bauswein, A., Belias, A., Bernhard, J., Bhaduri, P. P., Bibrzycki, Ł., Blaschke, D., Bleicher, M., Blume, C., Bolognesi, S., Brambilla, N., Bratkovskaya, E., Ciepał, I., Collins, S., Crede, V., Das, R., Denig, A., Diehl, S., Dobbs, S., Dolan, S., Dönigus, B., Döring, M., Dubla, A., Eichmann, G., Epelbaum, E., Ramírez, C. Fernández, Fields, L., Fischer, C. S., Foda, A. M., Galatyuk, T., Gasik, P., Giacosa, F., Götzen, K., Grube, B., Guo, F. -K., Guskov, A., Haidenbauer, J., Hammer, H. -W., Hanhart, C., Höhne, C., Huesken, N., Hurck, P., Itahashi, K., Kamiński, R., Kampert, K. H., Kliemt, R., Ko, C. M., Kubis, B., Kupsc, A., Leupold, S., Lorenz, M., Maas, F., Maciula, R., Mahn, K. B. M., Mai, M., Mathieu, V., Mihaylov, D., Mikhasenko, M., Mohler, D., Morino, Y., Morningstar, C., Nandy, E., Noumi, H., Peláez, J. R., Peña, M. T., Pilloni, A., Ramstein, B., Rappold, C., Reichert, T., Ritman, J., Roberts, C. D., Rönchen, D., Roy, S., Saito, T., Sakuma, F., Salabura, P., Sánchez, F., Scheidenberger, C., Schmitt, L., Song, T., Steinheimer, J., Stroth, J., Sturm, C., Szczepaniak, A., Szczurek, A., Takahashi, H., Taylor, J., Tolos, L., Torres-Rincon, J. M., Tyson, R., Vidaña, I., Wąchała, T., Wielanek, D., Winney, D., Wolf, G., Żarnecki, G., Zbroszczyk, H.
Institutions: GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Ruhr University Bochum, Jagiellonian University, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, University of Bonn, Peking University, State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, University of Graz, Stockholm University, Nawi Graz, University of Glasgow, University of York, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Goethe University Frankfurt, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Université Paris-Saclay, Institut de Recherche sur les Lois Fondamentales de l'Univers, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, University of Regensburg, Bose Institute, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, University of Connecticut, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Florida State University, George Washington University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Uppsala University, Helmholtz Institute Mainz, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Michigan State University, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Technical University of Munich, Research Center for Nuclear Physics, The University of Osaka, The University of Osaka, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, Nanjing University, Jan Kochanowski University, Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research, LIP - Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules, Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Universitat de Barcelona, HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Warsaw University of Technology
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4417529461