[en] The proceedings of the symposium on nuclear physics covered many topics including nuclear structure, low and medium energy nuclear reactions, physics with radioactive ion beams, intermediate energy nuclear physics, relativistic nuclear collisions and QGP, nuclear matter and nuclear astrophysics, instrumentation and accelerators in nuclear physics. Articles relevant to INIS are indexed separately

[en] Full text: Substantial progress has been made in nuclear physics, the study of hadronic matter. The understanding of the structure of hadrons, has advanced considerably in the recent past and there is better knowledge of the electric and magnetic shape of nucleons. We are now able to describe nuclear properties quantitatively with ab initio calculations starting with the interaction between nucleons. The experimental exploration of nuclei and their structure in both the stable regime, and in regions increasingly remote from the valley of stability, is showing systematic changes in with neutron excess. Our understanding of hot, dense nuclear matter that was dominant in the earliest stages of our universe has been clarified, at least in some measure. The properties of nuclei relevant to the formation of elements in stars are being determined more quantitatively. Nuclear physics is making major contributions to the understanding of fundamental interactions and, in particular, to the properties of neutrinos, the lightest known elementary particles. The field of nuclear physics has broadened considerably and now bridges areas of science between many-body physics, in the hadronic context, and the understanding of some of the most fundamental symmetries

[en] A 15 MV tandem Van de Graff type accelerator (15 UD Pelletron) has been in regular operation for planned experiments in Nuclear Physics, Materials Science, Atomic Physics and Radiation Biology since 1990. The design and performance of the various systems are presented

[en] The pelletron accelerator facility described here is based on a 14 million volt tandem electrostatic accelerator capable of providing beams of accelerated nuclear particles such as protons, alpha particles and different types of heavy ions at energies sufficiently high for conducting nuclear research in a variety of new and interesting regimes

[en] At Variable Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata several accelerator activities are being pursued. A superconducting cyclotron with K = 500 is under construction at this centre. Heavy-ion beams of 80 MeV/nucleon energy for light ions will be available from this cyclotron. The superconducting cyclotron will become a national facility. It will also be open to the international experimental physics community

[en] As a first application, the Au + Au reaction have been simulated at 600 MeV/A at impact parameters between 0 and 13 fm and compared with ALADIN experimental findings. The phase space is generated using quantum molecular dynamics method and the clusterization is done using simulated annealing clusterization algorithm as well as ESACA

[en] A Pb-Pb collision at LHC energies will produce a data rate of ∼500 MB/s for the Dimuon Spectrometer of ALICE. The aim of the High Level Trigger (HLT) is to eliminate 80% of the background events and bring down the data rate of ∼100 MB/s. This will be achieved by reconstructing the Muon tracks on-line by using the 4th and 5 th tracking stations

[en] The focus has been made on one of the most popular approaches- the cranking model. One of the important issues concern dissipation or friction or viscosity in large amplitude collective motion

[en] In this paper the derivative of the topological susceptibility have been studied at zero momentum. The matrix elements have been determined in the literature for the ground state mesons

[en] The nuclear double beta decay is a second-order process of the weak interaction and is expected to proceed through two different modes, namely two neutrino double beta decay and neutrinoless double beta decay