Future Facility: FAIR at GSI

✍ Scribed by Guenther Rosner

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 523 KB
• Volume: 167
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0920-5632
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2006.12.089

✦ Synopsis

The Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research, FAIR, is a new particle accelerator facility to be built at the GSI site in Germany. The research at FAIR will cover a wide range of topics in nuclear and hadron physics, high density plasma and atomic physics, and applications in condensed matter physics and biology. A 1.1 km circumference double ring of rapidly cycling 100 and 300 Tm synchrotrons, will be FAIR's central accelerator system. It will be used to produce, inter alia, high intensity secondary beams of antiprotons and short-lived radioactive nuclei. A subsequent suite of cooler and storage rings will deliver heavy ion and antiproton beams of unprecedented quality. Large experiments are presently being designed by the NUSTAR, PANDA, PAX, CBM, SPARC, FLAIR, HEDgeHOB and BIOMAT collaborations.