https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20135901011
Experiments on extreme states of matter towards HIF at FAIR
1 FAIR GmbH, Planckstrasse 1, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany
2 GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforshung GmbH, Planckstrasse 1, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany
a e-mail: boris.sharkov@fair-center.eu
Published online: 15 November 2013
The Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe (FAIR) will provide worldwide unique accelerator and experimental facilities allowing for a large variety of unprecedented frontier research in extreme state of matter physics and applied science. Indeed, it is the largest basic research project on the roadmap of the European Strategy Forum of Research Infrastructures (ESFRI), and it is cornerstone of the European Research Area. FAIR offers to scientists from the whole world an abundance of outstanding research opportunities, broader in scope than any other contemporary large-scale facility worldwide. More than 2500 scientists are involved in setting up and exploiting the FAIR facility. They will push the frontiers of our knowledge in plasma, nuclear, atomic, hadron and applied physics far ahead, with important implications also for other fields in science such as cosmology, astro and particle physics, and technology. It includes 14 initial experiments, which form the four scientific pillars of FAIR. The main thrust of intense heavy ion and laser beam-matter interaction research focuses on the structure and evolution of extreme state of matter on both a microscopic and on a cosmic scale.
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