FAIR - Cosmic Matter in the Laboratory

International Workshop on Discovery Physics at the LHC

Stöcker, Horst^1,3,5 ; Stöhlker, Thomas^1,2,6 ; Sturm, Christian^1,4

GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Planckstr. 1, Darmstadt

D-64291, Germany^1

Helmholtz Institut Jena, Fröbelstieg 3, Jena

D-07743, Germany^2

Judah M. Eisenberg Endowed Department for Theoretical Physics, Institut für Theoretische Physik, J.W. Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue Str. 1, Frankfurt Main

D-60438, Germany^3

Institut für Kernphysik, J.W. Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue Str. 1, Frankfurt Main

D-60438, Germany^4

Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Ruth-Moufang-Str. 1, Frankfurt am Main

D-60438, Germany^5

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena

07737, Germany^6

关键词: Accelerator complex;    Experimental facilities;    Facility for antiproton and ion research;    Hadron spectroscopy;    High performance lasers;    Intense heavy ion beams;    Neutron-rich nuclei;    Relativistic nuclei;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/623/1/012026/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/623/1/012026

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

To explore cosmic matter in the laboratory - this fascinating research prospect becomes available at the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research, FAIR. The new facility is being constructed within the next five years adjacent to the existing accelerator complex of the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research at Darmstadt/Germany, expanding the research goals and technical possibilities substantially. This includes new insights into the dynamics of supernovae depending on the properties of short-lived neutron-rich nuclei which will be investigated with intense rare isotope beams. New insights will be provided into the interior of stars by exploring dense plasmas with intense heavy-ion beams combined with a high-performance laser - or into neutron star cores by probing the highest baryon densities in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions at unprecedented collision rates. To the latter, the properties of hadrons play an important part which will be systematically studied by high precision hadron spectroscopy with antiproton beams at unmatched intensities. The worldwide unique accelerator and experimental facilities of FAIR will open the way for a broad spectrum of unprecedented fore-front research supplying a large variety of experiments in hadron, nuclear, atomic and plasma physics as well as biomedical and material science which will be briefly described in this article. This article is based on the FAIR Green Paper [4] and gives an update of former publications [5] - [12].