The 5th European Nuclear Physics Conference 2022 (EuNPC 2022)

Abstract

EuNPC 2022 is the fifth event of the European Nuclear Physics Conference, promoted by the Nuclear Physics Division Board of the European Physics Society (NPB EPS), and, in this edition, in collaboration with the Nuclear Physics Group of the Royal Spanish Physical Society (RSEF) and the Galician Institute of High Energy Physics of the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC). The conference took place from 24 October to 28 October 2022 in Santiago de Compostela (Spain) and in total over 250 scientists attended from universities and research centers from all over Europe (Figure 1). The scientific program covered a very broad spectrum of current topics studied in nuclear physics: Accelerators and Instrumentation; Nuclear Structure, Spectroscopy, and Dynamics; Nuclear Astrophysics; Astroparticle Physics; Heavy Ion Collisions and Quantum Chromodynamics Phases; Hadron Structure; Spectroscopy, and Dynamics; Fundamental Symmetries and Interactions; and Nuclear Physics Applications. We had plenary sessions, in which more than 30 internationally renowned invited speakers gave talks that covered all the aforementioned topics, and parallel and poster sessions in which a large number of young researchers participated. The local section of EPS Young Minds organized an interesting section consisting of a roundtable on “Life beyond the PhD, a Guide to a Satisfactory Professional Career,” and a workshop directed by Dr. Anna Muro (University of Barcelona) on “Well-Being and Positive Mental Health in Research Career.” You may find more details about the program at https://indico.cern.ch/ event/1104299/. The Lise Meitner Award ceremony, the most prestigious scientific recognition awarded by the Division of Nuclear Physics, was also part of our program. The winner of this edition was Prof. Phil Walker from the University of Surrey, for his seminal contributions to the understanding of long-lived nuclear excited “isomeric” states and the factors that determine their half-lives, that range from nanoseconds to years (Figure 2). We also celebrated the award ceremony for the best posters of the congress, sponsored by the Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee (NuPECC). The winners of this edition were Martina Feijoo (USC), and Charlie Paxman and Simona Baruta (Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering) (Figure 3).