Where does the mass come from?

The experiment HADES looks deep into the medium: It investigates the properties of dense nuclear matter created in the course of heavy ion collisions.

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One facility, thousand possibilities

Electrical fields are used to accelerate ions. Magnets direct and focus them. The ions can be accelerated up to about 90% of the speed of light.

_{© Jan Michael Hosan / Hessen schafft Wissen}

Cutting edge technology

Many instruments and experimental techniques are under development for the next-generation accelerator facility FAIR.

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Nuclei far off

The R³B experimental setup is a versatile reaction setup with unprecedented efficiency, acceptance, and resolution for kinematically complete measurements of reactions with high-energy radioactive beams.

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Round 'n' round

The ions perform several millions of circulations per second in the storage rings. They are stored and used for experiments. Cooling systems allow high precision experiments.

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What we are made of

Large-scale experiments look deep inside the matter: how does the matter behave? Where does its mass come from? Which structures does matter form?

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Fast and cool

A high-performance computation on-site Green-IT building is under development. It will use new state-of-the-art cooling technology requiring substantial R&D work.

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Helmholtz International Center for FAIR

The Helmholtz International Center for FAIR (HIC for FAIR) constitutes a unique think tank for forefront interdisciplinary theoretical and experimental research associated with the international large-scale Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research. FAIR is the new planned accelerator facility at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH at Darmstadt. HIC for FAIR is a joint research center of the Hessian Universities Frankfurt, Darmstadt and Gießen, the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH and the Helmholtz Association. It has been established within the framework of the Hessian initiative for scientific and economic excellence (LOEWE) in July 2008.

Our strategic goals are to:

Strengthen and focus research on the FAIR project at Hessian universities
Create optimal conditions for research in the field of strongly interacting matter (QCD matter)
Develop state-of-the-art technology in the fields of particle acceleration, high-speed pattern recognition, high-performance computing for the simulation of strongly interacting matter, data analysis

We will achieve these goals through:

Implementation of a guest scientist program
Education of excellent national and international PhD students
Construction of high-performance computing facilities
Recruitment of internationally renowned scientists for full professorships
Active advancement of women and families

QCD Simulations, Dynamics and Medical Physics

The research focuses on large-scale simulations of FAIR-related physics.

QCD-Phenomenology

QCD phenomenology deals with the properties of strongly interacting matter.

Instrumentation and Computing

The work covers the research and development activities for the FAIR experiments.

Accelerator

The activities focus on the optimization and required R&D work on the FAIR accelerators.

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