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The accelerator facility for Antiproton and Ion Research FAIR, one of the largest research infrastructures in Europe, is currently being built adjacent to the campus of GSI, Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, in Darmstadt. A suit of accelerators and storage rings will offer excellent research opportunities in hadron and nuclear physics, in atomic physics and nuclear astrophysics as well as in applied sciences like materials research, plasma physics and radiation biophysics with applications towards novel medical treatments and space science. FAIR is an international facility with 10 partner countries. More than 2500 scientists and engineers from more than 50 countries are involved in the preparation and definition of the research at FAIR. Science of FAIR is organized in four pillars: PANDA is a large experimental set-up to study proton-antiproton collisions; NUSTAR represents the nuclear structure, nuclear reaction and astrophysics community and is focused on the exotic isotope facility Super-FRS; CBM stands for the exploitation of dense baryonic matter with heavy ion collisions, and atomic physics, plasma physics and applied science are gathered within the APPA pillar. While the full potential of FAIR can only be exploited once the accelerators have been constructed and become operational, some of the experimental instrumentations are already available and are being utilized in a dedicated research program FAIR Phase-0 at GSI, exploiting the upgraded accelerator chain at GSI, and the international collaborations are intensively preparing the Day-1 program at FAIR.
The scientific potential of FAIR will be presented in this talk and the status of the construction will be summarized with a special focus on the activities and the scientific results of FAIR Phase-0.
| speaker affiliation | GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung |
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