The future international Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) in Darmstadt will open a new era of forefront research in nuclear physics, hadron physics, plasma physics, atomic physics, radiation biophysics, and material research. The FAIR start version will comprise the synchrotron SIS100, a collector ring, a storage ring, and a variety of experimental setups. SIS100 will provide high-intensity primary beams of protons up to 29 GeV, and nuclear beams with kinetic energies of 15 GeV per nucleon. FAIR will generate particle beams of a previously unparalleled intensity and quality. The variety of these particles will be unique: Ions of all the natural elements in the periodic table, as well as antiprotons. Beams of rare isotopes will be selected from nuclear reactions by the Superconducting Fragment Separator, and guided for further investigated to the experimental facilities built and operated by the NUSTAR collaboration. The High-Energy Storage Ring (HESR) will accelerate and cool intense secondary beams of antiprotons, and focus them on the target of the PANDA detector, where hadron physics experiments will be performed. A dedicated cave will host the various detector setups for atomic, plasma, biophysics and material research. The Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) and HADES detectors are designed for the investigation of the properties of dense nuclear matter and modifications of hadron properties in the dense nuclear medium, which will be created in energetic nucleus-nucleus collisions. Civil construction is well under way, and the manufacturing and test of the accelerator components is progressing. Installation and commissioning of the experiments is planned for 2022 - 2024, and the first beams from SIS100 are expected for 2025. The layout showing the future facility is depicted in figure below.
The animation showing construction of FAIR can be watched at YouTube.
Physicists from our faculty are strongly involved in three experiments: CBM, HADES and PANDA. Jagiellonian University is a coordinator of Polish Institutions grouped in a consortium Femtophysics and an international shareholder in the FAIR.
On April 23, 2021, a remote Zoom meeting Krakow@FAIR Virtual Workshop was held.