Great progress in the fair project and new research insights
As the press office of GSI/Fair reports, the focus was on the current developments of the fair project and milestones in research when the Federal Research Minister Cem Özdemir and Hesse's Minister of Science Timon Gremmels. The GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ions Research in Darmstadt and the Fair (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research), which is created here, are among the world's leading institutions of top physical research.
Insight into the research site Darmstadt
The ministers were made by Professor Thomas Nilsson, the scientific managing director of GSI and Fair, Dr. Katharina Stummeyer, the administrative managing director, and Jörg Blaurock, the technical managing director, receive. On a tour, they received a comprehensive insight into the research location and the development of the fair project.
A special focus was on the progress in the construction of the new accelerator center, which is one of the largest research projects worldwide. The fair system will enable scientists to explore matter under extreme conditions, as is otherwise only the case in distant regions of the universe. This is crucial for understanding processes in star explosions, planets and other cosmic phenomena.
Advances on the construction site and high-tech installation
When driving across the construction site, the ministers were able to convince themselves of the considerable construction progress. The approximately 20 hectare area east of the existing campus has achieved important milestones in recent months:
- The technical building facility is well advanced.
- The shell for the current expansion stage of Fair has been completed.
- The installation of the fair accelerator machine has started.
- High -performance magnets and accelerator structures were installed in the underground ring tunnels.
Another highlight of the visit was the visit to the R3B experiment , in which fair detectors are used, as well as the state-of-the-art tumor therapy with ion rays that was developed on the GSI. This innovative technology enables precise cancer therapies and underlines the relevance of the research work at the Darmstadt location.
Fair: A research complex of global importance
The fair system will offer researchers from all over the world unique experimental opportunities. Funding questions of astrophysics, particle physics and material sciences can be answered here by researching extremely high temperatures, pressures and density.
With the visited construction progress and the latest developments in particle research, GSI/Fair sets an important sign of the science landscape in Germany and Europe.
(Darmstadt - Red /GSI /BP /Photo: T.Silz /GSI)
