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[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
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Kailas, S.; Suresh Kumar; Pant, L.M. (Nuclear Physics Div., Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai (India)) (eds.); Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences, Dept. of Atomic Energy, Mumbai (India); 515 p; ISBN 81-8372-020-X; ; 2005; p. 1; 50. DAE-BRNS symposium on nuclear physics; Mumbai (India); 12-16 Dec 2005
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