Annual Report 2020

This Annual Report compiles last year´s activities of our institute, which have been achieved together withour cooperation partners and further collaborations at COSY, as well as experiments carried out at otherlaboratories in Germany and abroad (e.g. Gran Sasso, JLab). In 2020, our institute as virtually everythingaround us, was substantially affected by work and travel restrictions that were imposed by politics and themanagement of FZJ to mitigate the Covid-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, we have been able to provide COSYbeam for experiments and could also hold a CBAC meeting – for the first time in a hybrid-mode and at GSIDarmstadt. The TransFAIR project achieved a significant milestone by signatures of a cooperation contractbetween Forschungszentrum Jülich and GSI Darmstadt, which transfers the scientific responsibility of IKP,more specifically IKP-1, -2 and -4 as well as the technical/administrative services (IKP-TA), from FZJ toGSI with the start of the new PoF-IV period on January 2021. One of our colleagues (J.R.) has alreadymoved from FZJ to GSI – other staff and IKP personnel will be offered to follow. The theory institute(IKP-3) will remain part of FZJ as IAS-4 (Institute for Advanced Simulation). The present Annual Reportthus constitutes the last common IKP report, which has a history of more than 50 years, starting in 1967with a brief report of the first director Claus Mayer-Boericke (in German) and continuing in English since1972 on an annular basis. The format has changed over the years, but the intention always was to inform ournational and international colleagues and friends about what´s going on scientifically in IKP. In retrospect,it obviously also is an excellent source for people that are looking for some historical informatio