From September 23 to 28, 2024, the science festival “Highlights of Physics” will take place in Hanover. The central elements of the event are the large hands-on exhibition and science shows as well as a varied lecture program. GSI and FAIR will also be represented with a booth, offering facts and entertainment about the future FAIR particle accelerator facility, which is currently being built at GSI in Darmstadt. For all those who cannot attend live, there is an online offer with numerous live…

The topic of radiation hardness testing was the focus of a workshop recently organized by the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung together with the two GSI use case initiatives of the Helmholtz innovation platform Hi-Acts and Datzmann Interact & Innovate (DINI) as a leading service provider in the field of radiation hardness testing. The key topics were the current status, best practices, challenges and future opportunities on the GSI campus. The event brought together stakeholders…

This past weekend, GSI and FAIR presented themselves at the trade fair in Darmstadt's Arheilgen district. At an exhibition booth in the hall of “Goldner Löwe”, guests of all ages were provided with extensive information about the accelerator facilities and two hands-on experiments. Employees were ready to answer questions about research and the FAIR construction project.

Dr. Zewei Xiong has received a prestigious ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The funding is one of Europe's most important research awards, aimed at talented young scientists at an early career stage to show their potential as a research leader. Dr. Zewei Xiong is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher in the Nuclear Astrophysics and Structure Department at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung.

The “ESA FAIR Space Radiation Summer School 2024” is entering a new round: With its first-class training program and high-level expertise, linked to a global network, the training offer for young scientists is once again attracting great international interest this year. Currently, 15 young researchers from ten countries have the unique opportunity in Darmstadt to focus intensively on the topic of cosmic radiation. The renowned summer school for radiation research is jointly organized...

The CDU member of the Bundestag Dr. Astrid Mannes from the Darmstadt constituency recently informed herself about the current scientific activities at GSI/FAIR and the progress of the future accelerator center FAIR, which is being built at GSI. She was accompanied by CDU district manager Nicolai Adler from her constituency office. The guests were welcomed...

María Eugenia Toimil-Molares, head of the GSI/FAIR Materials Research Department and Professor of Ion-Beam Modified Materials in the Department for Material- and Geosciences of the Technical University of Darmstadt, has acquired funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) amounting to around 350000 euros for the work package “Investigation of transient transport processes using individual gold nanopores as model systems” as part of the TRANSIEVES project. TRANSIEVES is a joint project ...

The lecture series „Wissenschaft für Alle“ of GSI and FAIR will be continued as a hybrid format in the second half of 2024. Interested parties can either attend the event in the lecture hall of GSI/FAIR following a registration or dial into the broadcast of the event via video conference using an internet-enabled device such as a laptop, cell phone or tablet. The program will begin on Wednesday, August 28, 2024, with a talk about the evolution of the Universe by Professor Karlheinz Langanke of…

The starting signal for the installation of the FAIR accelerator machine has been given. The high-precision assembly work in the buildings of the international FAIR accelerator facility in Darmstadt has begun: The first magnets each weighing tons were successfully positioned in the ring tunnel, 17 meters underground. This marks a decisive step forward in the realization of the state-of-the-art accelerator, which will accelerate ions of all elements up to 99 percent of the speed of light...