The NuSTAR facilty at FAIR

Abstract

The NuSTAR facility at the future Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) in Darmstadt with its high intensity secondary beams of short-lived ions at relativistic energies will be unique worldwide. The combination of relativistic in-flight fragmentation and fission products with storage rings and the simultaneous availability of stored antiprotons and electrons will allow unique experiments to be performed that will address the fundamental and long-standing questions of low energy nuclear physics. A brief review of the experimental capabilities that have been proposed for experiments at the Super-FRagment-Separator at FAIR and a selection of the physics questions that will be addressed is given. Only a short glimpse at the physics questions being addressed and the observables providing answers to these questions can be given here.