with heavy ions and radioprotection in space. He made important scientific progress in the field of biodosimetry of charged particles, optimization of particle therapy and shielding of heavy ions in space [...] Professor Durante is being honored for his important work on cancer therapy with high-energy heavy ions. Professor Durante, who was also invited to give a plenary lecture on particle therapy in London,

Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt operates a globally unique accelerator facility for ions. Researchers from all over the world use the facility for experiments and to develop new applications

co-propagating to the ion beam, respectively. The so-called “specific difference”, a weighted difference between the hyperfine transition energies in hydrogen-like and lithium-like ions, provides the means [...] sufficient amount of hydrogen-like 208 Bi 82+ , about 10 5 ions, to observe for the first-time ever the laser resonance signal of a highly-charged ion of an accelerator-produced radioactive isotope. The results [...] ca. 30 min. The ground-state hyperfine splitting structure in heavy hydrogen-like and lithium-like ions resides in the visible and the infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum, respectively. Even though

biophysics as well as various professions in the specialist and infrastructure departments such as ion sources, linear accelerators, beam diagnostics, electronics, engineering, workshops, target laboratory

other exotic particles and molecules such as highly-charged ions, for example from GSI in Darmstadt, or charged antimatter ions and molecular ions and to study them independently of accelerators.” GSI/FAIR

Texas and the University of Heidelberg. Another important partner of the study was the Heidelberg Ion Beam Therapy Center (HIT). Radiotherapy is an important treatment for brain tumors, but the efficacy

position at the DNA Repair Group within the Biophysics Department at GSI (Helmholtz Centre for Heavy-Ion Research) in Darmstadt. His research focused primarily on the molecular mechanisms of DNA repair and [...] experimental study of properties of hot and dense nuclear matter created during relativistic heavy-ion collisions within the TAPS and HADES scientific program. In 2004 he was awarded with a EURATOM fellowship [...] relevant for space research and tumour therapy. He was a person of charge for the FIRST (Fragmentation of Ions Relevant for Space and Therapy) experiment performed in 2011 and also for the irradiation facility

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 [...] detectors and instrumentation developed by the large international FAIR collaborations and the improved ion accelerators, it is already possible to break new ground in physics. (BP) Statements on the inauguration

ke ions of the isotope Bi-208 among them were identified and all unwanted reaction products were removed. “In earlier measurements of the stable isotope Bi-209, we had around 1,000 times more ions available [...] have been published in Nature Physics. The results confirm the theoretical predictions. Hydrogen-like ions, i.e. atomic nuclei to which only a single electron is bound, are theoretically particularly easy [...] is flipped “The initial challenge in this experiment was to generate and isolate the hydrogen-like ion of the desired isotope Bi-208,” explains Dr. Max Horst, lead author of the study. To do this, a neutron

GSI play an important role in the ALICE collaboration (A Large Ion Collider Experiment). ALICE is investigating collisions of heavy-ions, e.g. lead. When lead atomic nuclei collide with unimaginable impact