Focus Issues

Focus Issue on the Centenary of Bose Statistics
Guest Editors: Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta, Manik Banik, Arijit Haldar and Saquib Shamim

Focus on further enhancing the interaction between nuclear experiment and theory through information and statistics (ISNET 2.0)
Guest Editors: Dick Furnstahl, David Ireland and Daniel Phillips

A second edition of this focus issue, aiming to provide a much needed community resource in linking nuclear theory with experimental work. This edition aims to again capture the full range of developments at this important interface, through a collection of up-to-date, in-depth articles, that will be of great interest to most researchers working in nuclear physics today.

Focus on Dark Matter
Guest Editors: Laura Baudis and Jocelyn Monroe

The dark matter field is an intense area of research, and an immense experimental, theoretical and observational progress was achieved during the last decade. The focus issue scrutinises the present situation in the field: from astrophysical probes and numerical simulations of structure formation, to dark matter particle models and the status and prospects of various searches. An enormous effort is underway to uncover any non-gravitational manifestation of dark matter, to elucidate its nature on a microscopic scale and to determine its phase-space structure on the smallest scales.

Hadrons & Gravitational Waves After GW170817
Guest Editor: Felipe J Llanes-Estrada

This issue compilies the best and most current research at the intersection of nuclear and particle physics, astrophysics and general relativity, following event GW170817 and the modern revolution in multi-messenger detection.

XYZ Particles
Guest Editors: Steve Olsen and Qiang Zhao

The issue will include updates from all the main experimental collaborations looking at XYZ particles, in addition to reviews of the current theoretical and phenomenological considerations in the field.

Neutrino–Nucleus Interactions
Guest Editors: Maria Barbarao and Juan A Caballero

This issue includes reviews of the global efforts to date in studying quasielastic-like and neutral current neutrino scattering, electroweak considerations and pion production. It also intends to cover the plans for future experiments, including DUNE and Hyper-Kamiokande.

Microphysics in core-collapse supernovae
Guest Editors: Almudena Arcones and Evan O'Connor

It has been thirty years since the observation of neutrinos from SN1987A and our first glimpse into the heart of core-collapse supernovae. In celebration, we would like to summarise new advances towards understanding these fascinating events. To this end, JPhysG is publishing a focus issue of articles centered around the topic of nuclear and neutrino microphysics in core-collapse supernovae.

Lattice QCD
Guest Editors: Derek Leinweber and David Richards

The nonabelian self coupling of the gluon field in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) makes the empty vacuum unstable to the formation of nontrivial quark and gluon field fluctuations. Understanding the complex phenomena emerging from this nonperturbative relativistic quantum field theory is the focus of Lattice QCD. Through the introduction of a space-time lattice, ab initio predictions of QCD are obtained via numerical simulations on supercomputers. This focus issue will assemble a collection of new articles capturuing the breadth of impact on the fields of nuclear and particle physics. It is founded on a set of invited articles and is open for other contributed submissions.

Emerging leaders
Guest Editors: Achim Schwenk and Alan Martin

The Emerging Leaders initiative across the Journal of Physics series brings together exceptional early-career researchers across all of core physics, and is a showcase of the outstanding original research being undertaken by the next generation of top scientists. This inaugural edition is part of the series' 50th anniversary celebrations.

Focus issue: Neutrino mass and mass ordering
Guest Editor: Cristina Volpe

This invited collection of articles focuses on the absolute neutrino mass and mass ordering that are still unknown. Future experiments adopting different neutrino sources and complementary strategies will tackle this crucial open issue.

Focus on Exotic Beams at ISOLDE: A Laboratory Portrait
Guest Editors: Klaus Blaum and Maria Borge

In conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the first radioactive beams, we present a laboratory portrait on ISOLDE. This focus issue reviews the achievements obtained at ISOLDE during the last 50 years and looks forward to the future.

Focus issue: Shape coexistence in nuclei
Guest Editors: John L Wood and Kris Heyde

This invited collection of articles focuses on new directions and developments in the topic of shape coexistence in nuclei. We look at areas where there have been significant activity over the past 5 years, and where there are new and promising directions being taken to investigate this fundamental feature of nuclear structure. Contributions are from both theorists and experimentalists, providing an even balance on this important topic.

Celebrating 40 years of research in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
Guest Editors: Achim Schwenk and Alan Martin

On our 40th anniversary we have commissioned a series of articles from renowned authors, providing you with a unique perspective across the breadth of nuclear and particle physics and astrophysics. Each author has been given a remit to provide their personal insight and ideas, resulting in a unique collection of new ideas and engaging reviews. We hope you enjoy the collection.

Focus issue: Enhancing the interaction between nuclear experiment and theory through information and statistics (ISNET)
2015 J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 42 Issue 3
Guest Editors: David Ireland and Witek Nazarewicz

In this hotly anticipate issue we bring the community a much needed resource in linking nuclear theory with experimental work. The in-depth articles presented here in the broad ranging issue will be of great interest to most researchers working in nuclear physics today, and will help develop our understanding of how to interpret experimental results, their uncertainties and how they relate to the theory.

Focus section: 40 years of collective flow in relativistic heavy ion collisions—the barometer for primordial hot and dense QCD matter
2014 J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 41 Issue 12
Guest Editors: Takeshi Kodama, Horst Stöcker and Nu Xu
In 1974, pioneering works predicted the hydrodynamic behaviour of the hot dense matter created in high energy heavy-ion collisions. 40 years on, join JPhysG with this seminal set of invited reviews from leaders in the field. We hope you enjoy the issue!

Focus section: The precision frontier in semileptonic weak interactions
2014 J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 41 Issue 11
Guest Editor: Barry Holstein
Just like the TeV scale physics at the LHC, low energy but high precision experiments have the potential to reveal new physics beyond the standard model. In this unique set of invited articles we explore the current state of the art in the ultraprecise sector and anticipate what can be achieved in the coming years.

Focus section: Open problems in nuclear reaction theory
2014 J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 41 Issue 9
Guest Editors: Ron Johnson and Filomena Nunes
Nuclear structure physics is going through an exciting time. There have been tremendous improvements in experimental techniques and recent leaps in solving the many-body problem and dealing with the underlying force. The goal of this special focus issue is to provide a snapshot of the ongoing discussions, the difficulties faced in addressing the problems, identifying obstacles to progress, as well as the many opportunities for advances in the field. An important objective is to provide a guide for the younger generation as they move the field forward.

Focus issue: Nucleosynthesis and the role of the neutrino
2014 J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 41 Issue 4
Guest Editors: A Baha Balantekin and Cristina Volpe
In this issue we explore the state of the art and current issues surrounding nucleosynthesis, and the part neutrinos have to play in this cosmic game of creation. Researchers are using observational, experimental and theoretical tools to determine the physics behind these processes, and this issue brings each of these methods together in one volume.

Focus section: Double beta decay
2012 J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 39 Issue 12
Guest Editor: Kai Zuber
Double beta decay, the conversion of a nucleus changing the atomic number Z by two units while leaving the atomic mass A constant, is an extremely rare nuclear decay. Exciting new developments over the last few years triggered the idea of this focus section. We also cover the implication of double beta decay for current particle physics and theories beyond the Standard Model.

Focus section: AdS/CFT applications to QCD matter
2012 J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 39 Issue 5
Guest Editors: Steffen A Bass and Jorge Casalderrey-Solana
Intense research activity has motivated a focus section on the applications of gauge/gravity duality to the dynamics of QCD matter under extreme conditions. The articles in this issue cover most of the aspects where the correspondence is currently having a larger impact within the field and will provide the reader with an overall view of the wide scope that this method has acquired, as well as the technical advances and main results in the field.

Quark Matter 2011—Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus–Nucleus Collisions (Annecy, France, 23–28 May 2011) (Open Access)
2011 J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 38 Issue 12
Guest Editors: Yves Schutz and Urs Achim Wiedemann
These proceedings mark a historical milestone: two decades after starting to prepare for the LHC, the present volume documents the first substantial harvest of LHC heavy-ion data. In addition, these proceedings feature a complete overview of recent theoretical and experimental developments over two orders of magnitude in the energy of heavy-ion collisions.

Focus section: Physics with reaccelerated ISOL beams
2011 J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 38 Issue 2
Guest Editor: Nigel Orr
We look back on the first two decades of physics using reaccelerated ISOL beams. We hope the readers of the contributions to this section will appreciate the physics insights that have been gained over this time, the vitality of the field and the prospects that the new facilities hold. Whilst this focus section concentrates on the physics with post-accelerated ISOL beams, we also recognise the years of effort of those involved in the development of the beams used in these experiments.

Focus issue: Open problems in nuclear structure theory
2010 J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 37 Issue 6
Guest Editor: Jacek Dobaczewski
The goal of publishing this special focus issue of JPhysG on open problems in nuclear structure theory is to construct a fundamental inventory thereof, so that the tasks and available options become more clearly exposed and that this will help to stimulate a boost in theoretical activity, commensurate with the experimental progress. The volume turned out to be a snapshot of the domain, revealing the burning questions that the community wants to address.