All the fun of the FAIR: fundamental physics at the facility for antiproton and ion research
Review article, 2019
The Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) will be the accelerator-based flagship research facility in many basic sciences and their applications in Europe for the coming decades. FAIR will open up unprecedented 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 currently under construction as an international facility at the campus of the GSI Helmholtzzentrum for Heavy-Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany. While the full science potential of FAIR can only be harvested once the new suite of accelerators and storage rings is completed and operational, some of the experimental detectors and instrumentation are already available and will be used starting in summer 2018 in a dedicated research program at GSI, exploiting also the significantly upgraded GSI accelerator chain. The current manuscript summarizes how FAIR will advance our knowledge in various research fields ranging from a deeper understanding of the fundamental interactions and symmetries in nature to a better understanding of the evolution of the Universe and the objects within.
heavy ion collisions
exotic nuclei
quantum electrodynamics
quantum chromodynamics
nucleosynthesis
Author
M. Durante
University of Naples Federico II
Helmholtz
Institut für Kernphysik
National Institute for Nuclear Physics
P. Indelicato
Helmholtz
Université Paris PSL
Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC)
Björn Jonson
Helmholtz
Chalmers, Physics, Subatomic and Plasma Physics
Institut für Kernphysik
V Koch
Institut für Kernphysik
Helmholtz
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
K. Langanke
Helmholtz
Institut für Kernphysik
Ulf-G Meissner
Institut für Kernphysik
Forschungszentrum Jülich
University of Bonn
Helmholtz
E. Nappi
Helmholtz
Institut für Kernphysik
National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Thomas Nilsson
Chalmers, Physics
Institut für Kernphysik
Helmholtz
Th Stoehlker
Institut für Kernphysik
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Helmholtz
E. Widmann
Institut für Kernphysik
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Helmholtz
M. Wiescher
University of Notre Dame
Helmholtz
Institut für Kernphysik
Physica Scripta
00318949 (ISSN) 14024896 (eISSN)
Vol. 94 3 033001Exotiska nukleära system vid gränsen för existens - fysik i frontlinjen med perspektiv mot FAIR
Swedish Research Council (VR) (2017-03839), 2018-01-01 -- 2021-12-31.
Construction of FAIR-NUSTAR experiments
Swedish Research Council (VR) (2014-06644), 2016-01-01 -- 2018-12-31.
Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)
Didactics
Accelerator Physics and Instrumentation
Fusion, Plasma and Space Physics
Roots
Basic sciences
DOI
10.1088/1402-4896/aaf93f