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FAIR Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research FAIR Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research Marielle Chartier University of Liverpool UK Nuclear Physics Community Meeting, Cosener’s House, 25-26 May 2005 The Future International Facility at GSI: FAIR Beams of Ions and Antiprotons Existing SIS 100/300 To be built UNILAC SIS 18 FRS ESR Super FRS HESR CR 100 m NESR The Future FAIR Facility @ GSI Primary Beams Secondary Beams •1012/s 238U28+ @ 1.5-2 AGeV; • Broad range of factor 100 -1000 over present in radioactive beams up to intensity 1.5 - 2 AGeV; • 2(4)x1013/s 30 GeV protons •1010/s 238U73+ up to 25 (-35) AGeV up to factor 10 000 in intensity over present • Antiprotons 3 - 30 GeV Storage and Cooler Rings • Radioactive beams •e –A collider •1011 antiprotons Key Technical Features stored and cooled at 0.8 - 14.5 GeV • Cooled beams • Rapidly cycling superconducting magnets Summary of Research Areas at the FAIR Facility Structure and Dynamics of Nuclei - Radioactive Beams Nucleonic matter Nuclear astrophysics Fundamental symmetries Hadron Structure and Quark-Gluon Dynamics - Antiprotons Non-pertubative QCD Quark-gluon degrees of freedom Confinement and chiral symmetry Nuclear Matter and the Quark-Gluon Plasma - Relativistic HI - Beams Nuclear phase diagram Compressed nuclear/strange matter Deconfinement and chiral symmetry Physics of Dense Plasmas and Bulk Matter - Bunch Compression Magnetic Fusion Inertial Cofinement Fusion Sun Core Properties of high density plasmas PHELIX Temperature [eV] Laser Heating as m ed las pl p u al co e y s Id gl a n sm Phase transitions and equation of state tro la Ion Beam S p Heating Jupiter SIS 18 solid state Laser - ion interaction with and in plasmas Sun Surface density Density [cm-3] Ultra High EM-Fields and Applications – Bare Ions & Petawatt Laser QED and critical fields Ion - laser interaction Ion - matter interaction 1. Radioactive Beams (NUSTAR) In-Flight High-energy RIB Facilities in Europe Present and Future GSI Darmstadt FAIR Darmstadt GANIL RIKEN Japan Super-RIKEN Japan MSU USA Lanzhou China RIA USA Exotic nuclei studied with radioactive beams Key physics issues Key physics issues High-energyHigh-energy beams beams ~ 400-740 AMeV • Matter distributions (halo, skin…) • Matter distributions (halo, skin…) Light-ionLight-ion scattering scattering •• Single-particle Single-particle structure structure evolution evolution KnockoutKnockout and and breakup breakup reactions reactions (magic numbers, shell gaps, (magic numbers, shell gaps, Electromagnetic excitation spectroscopicspectroscopic factors) factors) Electromagnetic excitation Charged-particleCharged-particle spectroscopy spectroscopy •• NN NN correlations, correlations, clusters clusters InternalInternal and and external external targets targets • New collective modes (different • New collective modes (different Low/intermediate-energy beams deformationsdeformations for for p p and and n, n, giant giant Low/intermediate-energy beams resonances strengths) ~ 3-100 AMeV resonances strengths) CoulombCoulomb excitation excitation •• Astrophysical Astrophysical r rand and rp rp processes processes DirectDirect and and compound compound reactions reactions Fragmentation •• In-medium In-medium interactions interactions in in asymmetric asymmetric Fragmentation and low-density matter and low-density matter In-flightIn-flight γ γ-ray-ray spectroscopy spectroscopy •• Fundamental Fundamental interactions interactions and and Stopped/trappedStopped/trapped beams beams symmetriessymmetries ImplantationImplantation and and decays decays ( (α,α, β, β, γ γ, ,p, p, n) n) •• Equation Equation of of state state of of nuclear nuclear matter matter LaserLaser spectroscopy spectroscopy SIS The Radioactive Beam Production Facility @ FAIR Target Pre-Separator High-intensity beams from SIS100/300 Super-FRS - all elements, H to U Main-Separator - intensity > 1012 ions/sec - high energies, 1.5 AGeV - pulsed and CW beams Energy 2m Buncher aaAGATA a Superconducting FRagment Separator a CR Low-Energy Cave Three experimental areas: High-Energy - High-energy reaction setup Cave - Multi-storage rings (CR, RESR, NESR, e-A collider) NESR - Energy-bunched slowed/stopped beams eA-Collider Exotic Doubly Magic Nuclei 100 Secondary beam Sn 132 Discovered at GSI Sn 7 atoms in 280 h intensities 8 SIS 200: 2/s SIS 200: 10 /s 48 Ni Discovered at GANIL SIS 200: 65/h 78 Ni Discovered at GSI 82 56 3 atoms in 130 h Ni SIS 200: 8/s 9 SIS 200: 10 /s 50 Z 28 82 20 50 28 20 N 8 Technical Proposals (I) Nuclear Structure, Astrophysics and Reactions (NUSTAR) ~600 users Super-FRS High Energy Branch Reactions with Relativistic Radioactive Beams (R3B) T. Aumann, B. Jonson Super-FRS Ring Branch Isomeric beams, Lifetimes and Masses (ILIMA) Y. Novikov, Y. Litvinov Exotic nuclei studied in Light-ion induced reactions (EXL) M. Chartier, J. Jourdan Electron-Ion Scattering in a storage ring (e-A Collider) (ELISe) H. Simon, L. Chulkov Antiproton-Ion Collider (AIC) R. Krucken, J. Zmeskal Super-FRS Low Energy Branch Low-energy branch of the Super-FRS C. Scheidenberger, B. Rubio Decay Spectroscopy with implanted ion beams (DESPEC) B. Rubio, P. Woods High-resolution In-flight Spectroscopy (HISPEC) Z. Podolyak, W. Korten, J. Jolie LASER Spectroscopy of short-lived nuclei (LASPEC) P. Campbell, W. Nörtershäuser Precision Measurements of very short-lived nuclei using an Advanced Trapping System for highly-charged Ions (MATS) K. Blaum, F. Herfurth, J. Crespo Neutron Capture measurements (NCAP) M.Heil Antiprotonic radioactive nuclides (Exo+pbar) M. Wada The high-energy branch of the Super-FRS: A universal setup for kinematical complete measurements of Reactions with Relativistic Radioactive Beams The setup The R3B experiment: • identification and beam "cooling" (tracking and momentum measurement, Δp/p ~10-4) • exclusive measurement of the final state: - identification and momentum analysis of fragments (large acceptance mode: Δp/p~10-3, high-resolution mode: Δp/p~10-4) - coincident measurement of neutrons, protons, gamma-rays, light recoil particles • applicable to a wide class of reactions Exotic nucleinuclei TOF Detector from Storage Rings Super-FRS Experiments B MCPs E secondary anode electrons Mass and lifetime CR measurements (ILIMA) stochastic ion cooling Reactions with C + CsI foil internal targets (EXL) elastic p, α scattering Gas Target and Electron Detector cooler (p,p’) (α,α’) Degrader for fastfast Tagging slowing downdown charge exchange of reaction products transfer NESR Schottky Electron scattering pickup (ELISe) Si strip array p Scintillator Electron elastic scattering spectrometer Gas jet Beam eA- inelastic scattering collider e- Antiproton-ion collider Heavy ions Reaction zone (AIC) e- Experiments at the low-energy branch Decay spectroscopy (DESPEC) In-flight γ spectroscopy (HISPEC) Laser spectroscopy (LASPEC) Ion traps (MATS) Neutron capture (NCAP) Antiprotonic nuclei (Exo+pbar) Energy-bunched slowed-down and stopped beams The UK in NUSTAR R3B 48 institutes, including: Birmingham, Daresbury, Liverpool, Manchester, Paisley, Surrey, York UK Responsibilities: Chair of Technical Board (R. Lemmon) ILIMA 18 institutes, including: Manchester, Surrey EXL 27 institutes, including: Birmingham, Daresbury, Liverpool, Surrey, York UK Responsibilities: Spokesperson (M. Chartier) ELISe 25 institutes, including: Daresbury, Liverpool, Manchester, Surrey, York HISPEC/ 50 institutes, including: DESPEC Daresbury, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Manchester, Paisley, Surrey, York UK Responsibilities: Spokesperson (Z. Podolyak), Deputy (P. Woods) LASPEC 12 institutes, including: Manchester UK Responsibilities: Spokesperson (P. Campbell) UK Responsibilities in NUSTAR: Chair of the Collaboration Board (W. Gelletly), Coordinator of Simulations WG (M. Labiche), Coordinator of DAQ WG (I. Lazarus) 2. High-energy Antiprotons (PANDA) QCD Physics @ FAIR • Compressed baryonic matter (CBM) • High energy antiprotons (PANDA) • Polarized antiprotons (PAX) • Stopped antiprotons (FLAIR) Hadron Structure with Gluonic excitations Charmonium: Quark confining potential Strange and charm quarks Search for exotic hadrons: Glueballs High precision spectroscopy Hybrids Charm production in pbar-A: Fixed-target experiment Charmonium The High-Energy Storage Ring @ FAIR Technical Proposals (II) Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) > 300 users P. Senger Antiproton Annihilations at Darmstadt (PANDA) ~ 350 users U. Wiedner, P. Gianotti Polarised Antiproton Experiments (PAX) P. Lenisa, F. Rathmann, M. Contalbrigo Facility for Low-energy Antiproton and heavy-Ion Research (FLAIR) E. Widmann, W. Quint, J. Walz The UK in PANDA PANDA 47 institutes, including: Edinburgh, Glasgow UK Responsibilities: target and forward spectrometers (G. Rosner, J. Kellie), particle ID (R. Kaiser, G. Rosner), GRID computing (D. Ireland, D. Protopopescu) Top view Target (superconducting solenoid) and forward (dipole) spectrometers. Particle ID (Ring Imaging Cherenkov detectors, RICH) 3. Staging plan and Organization Civil Construction Stage 1 • Ring tunnel for double ring synchrotron incl. technical buildings • Buildings housing the SFRS, the CR and NESR plus nuclear structure and atomic physics experiments • Office building Accelerator •2 x 1011/pulse U28+ at 200 AMeV •4 x 1010/pulse U73+ at 1000 AMeV • 4 Hz up to 12 Tm; 1 Hz up to 18 Tm • Bunch compression to 70 ns Research • Nuclear structure and nuclear astrophysics (gain factor in intensities for radioactive secondary beams: ~100) • Plasma physics at 'old' facility (gain factor in power density: ~200) • Atomic physics studies with highly charged/radioactive
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