Plan for nuclear symmetry energy experiments using the LAMPS system at the RIB facility RAON in Korea

A new rare isotope beam accelerator RAON and user facilities will be built in Korea. The Korea broad acceptance recoil spectrometerand apparatus (KOBRA) and the large-acceptance multipurpose spectrometer(LAMPS) will be ready from the beginning of the accelerator operation, and will be used to perform the nuclear physicsexperiments. We plan to use both spectrometersto investigate the density dependenceof the nuclear symmetry energy in a wide range of beam energies. In particular, the high-energy setup of LAMPS, which is a combination of a solenoid and dipole spectrometerswith neutron detector array, will be primarily used to study the symmetry energy of dense nuclear matter. This paper provides an overview of the RAON and the user facilities for the nuclear physicsprogram with an emphasis on LAMPS.