with intense heavy ion beams of low charge – which are the central challenges in achieving the FAIR goals. The new concepts developed at GSI are trend-setting for many new heavy ion accelerator facilities [...] design specially optimized for intense heavy ion beams. This sets new standards with innovative technologies such as a lattice for separating charges, cryogenic ion traps, a cryogenic UHV system and a rapidly [...] the award for his decades of work on the optimization of ring accelerators for high-intensity heavy ion beams. The prize was awarded to Dr. Peter Spiller by Professor Roger Erb on behalf of the University

learned about tumor therapy with carbon ions, which was carried out at GSI from 1997 to 2008. During this time, over 440 patients were treated on campus with ions from the particle accelerator. Afterwards [...] opportunity to spend a day in April at the GSI/FAIR campus to learn more about tumor therapy with ion beams. The event was organized by scientists from the Biophysics research department. All Particle

facility can be used to decelerate heavy ions with few or no electrons in order to carry out precise experiments. In this first experiment, slow, highly charged gold ions were irradiated onto a surface in order [...] step for us,” says Frank Herfurth, the project manager of HITRAP. In order to produce highly charged ions, i.e. atomic nuclei with few to no electrons, they are first accelerated to up to 400 MeV/nucleon [...] Zoran Andelkovic, “for example, for novel frequency standards or nuclear clocks with highly charged ions, but also as a knowledge transfer to FAIR.” (LW/LK)

experiments is planned at the international accelerator facility FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research), which is currently under construction at GSI. The new superconducting fragment separator

potential for our own high-power laser system PHELIX — a petawatt laser which can be combined with the ion beam from the particle accelerator for the experiments — to improve our operations and thus our research [...] PhD in 2022 with a thesis at the GSI/FAIR high-power laser PHELIX (Petawatt-High-Energy Laser for Ion Experiments). Subsequently he worked as a postdoc at the Apollon laser facility in Paris, France, as

bellows and adapter flanges. As the main accelerator of the new FAIR complex, the superconducting heavy ion synchrotron SIS100, which is currently under installation, operates in an underground tunnel about

two different ion beams with different revolution frequencies together in the same cycle at the SIS18 heavy ion synchrotron. The faster ions of one beam constantly overtake the slower ions of the other [...] physics experiments, a second ion type can be used to analyze the density variations of the plasma generated by the first ion type. For nuclear physics experiments, the second ion type can be used as a calibration [...] the bismuth ions, which are more difficult to deflect. Due to this acceleration, the iron ions in the SIS18 have a higher speed and therefore a higher revolution frequency than the bismuth ions. In order

high-energy carbon ions, UHDR use of even heavier ions can be safe and very effective for very resistant tumor. GSI is the only facility world-wide where the FLASH effect can be explored with ions heavier than [...] Particle therapy patients are treated either with high-energy protons or 12 C-ions, but there is a general agreement that heavier ions would be highly beneficial in treating extremely resistant, hypoxic and [...] glioblastoma (GBM). Unfortunately, the use of very heavy ions is constrained by their excessive normal tissue toxicity . A way to enable very heavy ion therapy with acceptable toxicities is to make use of

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 [...] for his new ERC-funded project entitled “Heavy Ion FLASH (HI-FLASH)”. In the HI-FLASH research project, Professor Marco Durante wants to use very heavy ions at ultra-high intensity against brain cancer. [...] in. Ions heavier than those previously used could be highly beneficial in treating of extremely resistant, hypoxic and fatal tumors such as glioblastoma. Unfortunately, the use of very heavy ions is c

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