Abstract :
Cosmic matter in the laboratory - a broad spectrum of unprecedented fore-front research becomes available at the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research, FAIR. The new facility will be constructed within the next seven years adjacent to the existing accelerator complex of the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research at Darmstadt/Germany. On October 4th, 2010, nine countries signed the international agreement on the construction of FAIR which will start in 2012. First beam will be delivered in 2017/2018 providing worldwide unique accelerator and experimental facilities. This will open the way for a large variety of experiments in hadron, nuclear, atomic and plasma physics as well as applied sciences which will be briefly described in this article. A few more details will be given on heavy-ion collisions providing a tool to study strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions.
Keywords :
atomic physics , neutron star , hybrid meson , plasma physics , CBM , XYZ state , high energy density matter , HADES , Hypernuclei , heavy-ion beam , nucleosynthesis , open charm , fair , astrophysics , Hadron Physics , biological effectiveness , First order phase transition , strong electromagnetic fields , relativistic nucleus-nucleus collision , Glueball , Mars mission , Strangeness , GSI , Nuclear structure , multi-strange hyperon , antiproton beam , compressed baryonic matter , exotic hadronic matter , Biophysics , nuclear matter equation-of-state , hyperon-nucleon interaction , material research , Charm , Radiation damage , QCD critical endpoint , storage ring , Super-FRS , high precision spectroscopy , high luminosity , rare isotope beam , charmonium , superconducting synchrotron , SUPERNOVA , PANDA
