Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research

The four scientific pillars of FAIR are: • Atomic, Plasma Physics and Applications – APPA, • Compressed Baryonic Matter – CBM, • Nuclear Structure, Astrophysics and Reactions – NUSTAR, • antiProton ANnihilation at DArmstadt – PANDA. Those are described on the web pages of FAIR (see Research Overview and User Pages and links therein). ==FAIR accelerators==

Beams of protons will be prepared in the proton linear accelerator, p-LINAC, while heavy ions will be prepared in the UNILAC. Both of them will be fed into the SIS18. From there they will be directed into SIS100 (and SIS300 if applicable). Protons will be used either to produce antiproton beams by directing them on a dedicated production target or directly used for experiments within APPA. These antiprotons will be captured and cooled in the Collector Ring, CR (and RESR when available) before being injected into HESR, where they will be utilised within the PANDA experiment. High energetic heavy ions will either be used directly for studies with the CBM or APPA experiments or to produce unstable ion beams. The latter will be produced in the Rare Isotope Production Target and filtered the Super-FRS, where the NUSTAR experiments will take place. ==FAIR partner==

Countries Roughly 3,000 scientists from more than 50 countries are already working on the planning of the experiment and accelerator facilities. This project is realised by partners from Finland, France, Germany, India, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia and Sweden that have signed an international treaty, the FAIR Convention, which formally entered into force in March 2014. The UK joined in 2013 as its first associate member. In 2018 the Czech Republic joined as an aspirant partner. Further countries, like Italy, are in negotiations. Institutions FAIR has also formed a strategic partnership with the Technische Universität Darmstadt, which is located in the same city as FAIR. == See also ==