clinical ion beam therapy centers in Heidelberg and Marburg, where patients are now regularly treated with heavy ions. Further Information Association for the Promotion of Tumor Therapy with Heavy Ions e.V [...] Professor Gerhard Kraft, the biophysicist and pioneer of modern heavy ion therapy. The initiator and decisive innovator of tumor therapy with ion beams established the biophysical research department at GSI in [...] Association for the Promotion of Tumor Therapy with heavy ions, honors outstanding master's and doctoral theses in the field of tumor therapy with ion beams. Dr. Jonathan Berthold's receives the prize for

Completing the first heavy-ion run in five years, it was the turn of lead ion beams to be accelerated and to deliver collisions to the experiments. The nuclei collided with an increased energy of 5.36 [...] Universe up to a millionth of a second after the Big Bang and can be recreated in the laboratory in heavy-ion collisions. Quark-gluon plasma is a state of matter made of free quarks (particles that make up hadrons [...] the most extreme conditions, quarks cannot exist individually and are bound inside hadrons. In heavy-ion collisions however, hundreds of protons and neutrons collide, forming a system with such density and

GSI/FAIR also provided information about the mega construction project FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research), which is currently being built next to the GSI premises in international cooperation. At

ring ESR, which was explained by Dr. Markus Steck, the therapy unit for tumor treatment with heavy ions as well as the large-scale experiment R3B. The energy-efficient supercomputing center Green IT Cube

trum für Schwerionenforschung and Queen's University Belfast. The interactions between electrons, ions, and photons within the material ejected from a neutron-star merger determine the light that we can

ihilation at DA rmstadt) experiment, which will be hosted by FAIR – the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research – currently under construction at GSI. At PANDA, the outer tracker will partly go back to

experiment was conducted at the Radioactive Ion Beam Factory (RIBF) at the RIKEN research center in Japan. The 28 O nuclei were produced in collisions of accelerated ions of the radioactive fluorine isotope 29 [...] several tons and was developed for the future accelerator center FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research) in Darmstadt. At FAIR, it will be an important component of one of the first experiments [...] Nuclear Reactions at GSI/FAIR and holds a professorship for experimental nuclear physics with exotic ion beams at TU Darmstadt. “The realization required an extraordinary effort, in which the Darmstadt groups

Professor Claudia Fournier (Head of GSI Research Group Immunomodulation and Tissue Effects after Heavy Ion Irradiation) and PD Dr. Michael Scholz (Head of GSI Research Group Biological Modeling) as congress [...] honorary member Professor Gerhard Kraft, founder of the Biophysics Department at GSI and father of heavy ion therapy in Europe, who passed away in March 2023. The obituary of the Biophysics department says: “He

detectors, which is only now possible, and with innovative approaches in tumor therapy, research with ion accelerators is gaining additional momentum and new potential for discovery, both in basic research [...] boson in 2012. In this role he helped to commission and to optimize the world-leading proton and heavy ion beams of the LHC. In Summer 2012 he moved as Leading Scientist for Accelerator R&D to DESY, where he

of Science and Higher Education for international shareholder in FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe) GmbH. The Jagiellonian University has been coordinating and managing Polish pa