Strange perspectives at FAIR

J Steinheimer (1) , C Sturm (2, 3) , S Schramm (4, 5) , H Stöcker (1, 3, 5)

1 Institut für Theoretische Physik
2 Institut für Kernphysik
3 GSI - Helmholtz zentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH
4 Center for Scientific Computing
5 Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies

Adjacent to the existing accelarator complex of the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research at Darmstadt/Germany the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research FAIR substantially expands research goals and technical possibilities. It will provide worldwide unique accelerator and experimental facilities allowing for a large variety of unprecedented fore-front research in hadron, nuclear and atomic physics as well as applied sciences which will be described in this article briefly. The start version of FAIR, the so called Modularized Start Version will deliver first beams in 2015/2016. As an example the article presents research efforts on strangeness at FAIR using heavy ion collisions, exotic nuclei from fragmentation and antiprotons to tackle various topics in this area. In particular hypernuclei and metastable exotic multihypernuclear objects will be investigated.

Mots clés: Physical Sciences

J Steinheimer, C Sturm, S Schramm, H Stöcker. Strange perspectives at FAIR. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 2010, 37 (9), pp.94026. ⟨10.1088/0954-3899/37/9/094026⟩. ⟨hal-00600845⟩