The preparations for the development and construction of the Collector Ring (CR) at the future FAIR accelerator center are making decisive progress. To this end, a delegation of officials from FAIR/GSI and the Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics (BINP) signed several contracts during a visit to Novosibirsk, Russia. The delegation included the technical managing director of FAIR and GSI, Jörg Blaurock, and the overall head of the FAIR project, Dr. Jürgen Henschel.

This year's FAIR-GENCO Young Scientist Award goes to Dr. Yoshiki Tanaka from the University of Tokio. The award is sponsored by the FAIR-GSI Exotic Nuclei Community (GENCO) and endowed with 1,000 Euro. The bestowal by GENCO president Professor Dr. Christoph Scheidenberger and vice-president Professor Dr. Nasser Kalantar-Nayestanaki took place on Thursday, March 2, 2017 in a special colloquium in the framework of the yearly GENCO meeting at FAIR and GSI. Furthermore five renowned scientists were...

At a ceremony held in Darmstadt, Professor Paolo Giubellino was inaugurated as the first joint Scientific Managing Director of GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH and Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe GmbH (FAIR GmbH). The festive inauguration ceremony was held at the Darmstadtium science and congress center. The guests included numerous politicians, university representatives, and partners from the organizations’ international scientific collaborations.

On Thursday, March2, 2017 the 7th International Masterclass took place at FAIR and GSI. 14 high-school students were invited to become a scientist for a day and analyse data from the ALICE experiment at the LHC accelerator at CERN in Geneva. GSI has had a major part in the construction and the scientific programme of ALICE from the beginning.

A facility for testing superconducting magnets for the two future accelerator centers FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research) and NICA (Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility) in Dubna, Russia has been put into operation with a festive ceremony. FAIR is currently being built in Darmstadt at GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, while NICA is being constructed in Dubna at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR). The ceremony was attended by a delegation from FAIR,...

Scientists from GSI are participants in one of the ten most important discoveries of 2016. A publication by a team of researchers led by the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) and including scientists and engineers from GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, the Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM), and the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) is among the most important breakthroughs in physics in 2016. The team’s work is featured as one of the “2016 Top Ten...

Perspectives and possibilities of future cooperations were primary focus during the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) delegation’s visit at the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) and the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt.

The physicist Dr. Sanja Damjanovic, who has had close ties to GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung since her time as a doctoral candidate, has been appointed the new Minister of Science of Montenegro. Prime Minister Duško Marković presented his cabinet after the parliamentary elections in October 2016.

The third annual Matter and Technologies conference (“MT meeting”) is being held this week at GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung and the future accelerator center FAIR in Darmstadt. Around 180 scientists from all over Germany are attending the event. The Matter and Technologies program was established by the Helmholtz Association in order to emphasize and enhance the key role that technological development plays for accelerators and detectors, and consolidate it in a specific program....