Record #230708 - GSI Repository

STRONG-2020

The strong interaction at the frontier of knowledge: fundamental research and applications

Coordinator	FACILITY FOR ANTIPROTON AND ION RESEARCH IN EUROPE GMBH ; Rudjer Boskovic Institute ; University of Groningen ; Heidelberg University ; Jagiellonian University ; University of the Basque Country ; Autonomous University of Madrid ; Polytechnic University of Milan ; University of Valencia ; NARODOWE CENTRUM BADAN JADROWYCH ; Warsaw University of Technology ; National Institute for Nuclear Physics ; Austrian Academy of Sciences ; JAVNA USTANOVA UNIVERZITET CRNE GORE PODGORICA ; University of Hamburg ; Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission ; University of Regensburg ; Fondazione Bruno Kessler ; WESTFAELISCHE WILHELMS-UNIVERSITAET MUENSTER ; University of Birmingham ; Complutense University of Madrid ; Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz ; Ruhr University Bochum ; University of Glasgow ; CERN ; Université Catholique de Louvain ; University of Zagreb Faculty of Science ; Edinburgh Napier University ; Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn ; University of Salamanca - Centro de Investigación del Cáncer ; GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH ; THE HENRYK NIEWODNICZANSKI INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS, POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ; University of Jyväskylä ; Forschungszentrum Jülich ; DEUTSCHES KREBSFORSCHUNGSZENTRUM HEIDELBERG ; THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN ; University of Santiago de Compostela ; National Research Council ; STICHTING NEDERLANDSE WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK INSTITUTEN ; LABORATORIO DE INSTRUMENTACAO E FISICA EXPERIMENTAL DE PARTICULAS LIP ; Uppsala University ; Technical University Munich ; University of Aveiro ; CNRS - Institut des Sciences Biologiques
Grant period	2019-06-01 - 2024-07-31
Funding body	European Union
Call number	H2020-INFRAIA-2018-1
Grant number	824093
Identifier	G:(EU-Grant)824093

Note: The strong interaction is one of the cornerstones of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics, and its experimental and theoretical study attracts an active community of about 2500 researchers in Europe. The list of fundamental open questions at the frontier of our current knowledge in the strong interaction is very rich and varied including a full understanding of (i) the partonic structure of hadrons, (ii) exotic hadronic states, properties of (iii) dense quark matter and of (iv) hot and dense quark-gluon plasma, as well as (v) precision tests of the SM. Such research topics are studied experimentally and theoretically mostly via particle collisions at low (a few tens of GeV) and high (up to 14 TeV) energies. Associated developments in state-of-the-art detectors/data-acquisition/beams/targets are required, as well as in theoretical (lattice, effective field, perturbative) calculations. The STRONG-2020 project brings together many of the leading research groups and infrastructures involved today in the study of the strong interaction in Europe, and also exploits the innovation potential in applied research through the development of detector systems with applications beyond fundamental physics, e.g. for medical imaging and information technology. The Consortium includes 44 participant groups, embracing 14 EU Member States, one International EU Interest Organization (CERN), and one EU candidate country. Together with host institutions of 21 other countries, without EU funds benefits, the project involves research in 36 countries. The project is structured in 32 Work Packages (WP): 7 Transnational Access Activities, 2 Virtual Access Activities, 7 Networking Activities and 14 Joint Research Activities. Furthermore, 2 WPs take care, respectively, of the “Management and Coordination” of the project and of “Communication and Outreach".