An international research team lead by GSI/FAIR, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM) has succeeded in the production of a new seaborgium isotope. In the experiment conducted at the GSI/FAIR accelerator facilities, 22 nuclei of seaborgium-257 could be detected. The results were published in the journal Physical Review Letters and highlighted as an “Editor’s Suggestion.”

Professor Marco Durante, Head of the Biophysics Department at GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung and Professor at the Department of Physics at TU Darmstadt, Institute of Condensed Matter Physics, has been granted a prestigious European Union research funding award for established scientists: The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded him the renowned Advanced Grant. The biophysicist will be able to use the millions in funding to realize an ambitious research project ...

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.

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.

Professor Thomas Nilsson was inaugurated as the new Scientific Managing Director of the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe GmbH (FAIR GmbH) and the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH at a ceremony in Darmstadt on April 24. The ceremony took place on the campus of GSI and the international accelerator center FAIR, which is currently being built there, and was attended by several hundred guests from politics, universities and international scientific collaborations…

81 students aged between ten and 17 took part in this year's Girls’Day at GSI/FAIR. It’s the largest number of participants the Girls’Day has ever had on site at GSI/FAIR. On the day, the girls gained numerous impressions of everyday life at an international research center and found out about the accelerator facilities and experiments. Girls’Day is a nationwide day of action that encourages girls to explore professions in which currently only few women are represented.

Virtual worlds, playful moments, modern didactics and science you can touch: the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung and the international accelerator center FAIR, currently under construction, will focus even more strongly on promoting young talent and imparting knowledge in the future. With the new SCIENCE POP-UP in Darmstadt's city center, GSI/FAIR aims to enthuse young and old about science and technology: a hands-on space with hands-on science, open to all and tailored for…

The great progress of the FAIR project, the milestones of research at GSI/FAIR, and the current scientific activities were the focus of the visit of Cem Özdemir, Federal Minister of Education and Research, and Timon Gremmels, Hessian Minister of Science and Research, Art and Culture, at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung and the international accelerator center FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research) being built in Darmstadt.

A team of researchers from GSI/FAIR, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz has succeeded in exploring the limits of the so-called island of stability within the superheavy nuclides more precisely by measuring the superheavy rutherfordium-252 nucleus, which is now the shortest-lived known superheavy nucleus. The results were published in the journal “Physical Review Letters” and highlighted as an “Editor's suggestion”.