All the Fun of the FAIR: Fundamental physics at the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research

Abstract

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.

invited comment, published in Physica Scripta 94 (2019) 033001

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• Origin of the heavy elements in binary neutron-star mergers from a gravitational wave event
• Theory of Core-Collapse Supernovae
• Ab-initio Determination of Light Hadron Masses
• Neutron-star radius constraints from GW170817 and future detections
• Challenges in QCD matter physics - The Compressed Baryonic Matter experiment at FAIR
• High-precision measurement of the atomic mass of the electron
• Toward the excited meson spectrum of dynamical QCD
• The 12C(a,g)16O reaction and its implications for stellar helium burning
• Coupled-Channel $D\pi$, $D\eta$ and $D_s\bar{K}$ Scattering from Lattice QCD
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• The electromagnetic form factors of the proton in the timelike region
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