Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR)

Abstract

The concept of the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) has been developed by the international science community and the GSI Laboratory. It builds and substantially expands on many seminal developments made by GSI and its international users over the last decade in cooler-ring technology and physics for high-energy heavy ion beams. The central part of the FAIR facility are two superconducting synchrotrons which will deliver high intensity ion beams up to 35 GeV per nucleon for experiments with primary beams of ions up to uranium and with secondary (radioactive) ion beams and antiprotons. FAIR will open up unique opportunities for a broad spectrum of research programs comprising OCD studies with cooled beams of antiprotons, nucleus-nucleus collisions at highest baryon density, nuclear structure and nuclear astrophysics investigations with nuclei far off stability, high density plasma physics, atomic and material science studies, radio-biological investigations and other interdisciplinary studies.