For the first time, the beam pipe of a section of the FAIR ring accelerator SIS100, operating at room temperature, has been pumped down to a high vacuum level (approx. 10-8 mbar). The commissioning of the vacuum systems serves the recording and analyzing of pump-down curves, as well as tests of the functionality of valves, pumps and vacuum gauges and the execution of leak checks.

Since years, the GET_INvolved Program has been fostering young talent, combining talent scouting with structured administration, and ensuring impactful mentorship. Over the eight years of its existence, the program has grown steadily, setting new standards for young people and their career development in research and technology. Since its inception, the GET_INvolved Program has become an international attraction for young researchers and students. It successfully supports young talents on…

Recently, the three members of the state parliament from Bündnis 90/Die Grünen in the Hessian Committee for Science and Art, Nina Eisenhardt, Hildegard Förster-Heldmann and Daniel May, visited GSI/FAIR’s SCIENCE POP-UP. Dr. Ingo Peter, Head of the Public Relations department of GSI/FAIR, welcomed the guests and gave them a tour around.

If you are currently traveling in Darmstadt or the surrounding area, you may have already caught a glimpse of them: Several public buses have recently been on the road with large-scale advertising for GSI and FAIR. The eye-catching vehicles draw attention to the diverse career opportunities at GSI and FAIR in the daily cityscape - directly in public spaces, where many people are out and about.

Starting June 1, 2025, Dr. Jonas Ohland, laser physicist at GSI/FAIR, will lead the young investigator group ALADIN (Adaptive Laser Architecture Development and INtegration). For this purpose, he will receive funding of 2.8 million euros over five years from the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space as part of the “Fusion Talents” program. The ALADIN project lays the foundation for the realization of stable, efficient lasers for inertial confinement fusion.

The first component of the FAIR Super Fragment Separator Super-FRS, a superconducting multiplet magnet, has been moved to the FAIR site. A multiplet is a combination of different magnet types (quadrupole, sextupole, octupole and steerer dipole), which are housed in a common liquid helium container and cryostat. The recent transport of the approximately five meter long, 2.5 meter wide, and four meter high component, weighing 48 tons, marks a major milestone of the FAIR installation in general and…

Recently, the first experiment with the new HITRAP decelerator was carried out at GSI/FAIR. The facility can be used to decelerate heavy ions with few or no electrons in order to carry out precise experiments. In this first experiment, slow, highly charged gold ions were irradiated onto a surface in order to investigate induced transformations on the surface.

An international team of scientists has identified an unexpected region of heavy, neutron-deficient isotopes in the nuclear chart where nuclear fission is predominantly governed by an asymmetric mode. The experiment was conducted by the R3B-SOFIA collaboration at GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany, within the FAIR Phase 0 program. The results are published in the journal Nature.

Recently, FAIR/GSI celebrated the Indian National Science Day together with His Excellency Ajit Gupte, the Indian Ambassador to Germany, and a delegation from the Embassy of India. This occasion marked another step forward in strengthening the collaboration between Germany and India in the field of research. The event began with a short introduction and a tour of the FAIR/GSI construction site with the GSI/FAIR management, Professor Thomas Nilsson, Dr. Katharina Stummeyer and Jörg Blaurock.…