Illustration of the future facility above. Copyright: ion42/GSI/FAIR
FAIR is a new, unique international accelerator facility for the research with antiprotons and ions. It is ready to be built within the coming years near Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany.
Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe GmbH (FAIR) – Darmstadt, Germany
Facts and figures
FAIR
Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe
FAIR GmbH
Shareholders from nine countries: Finland, France, Germany, India, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia and Sweden. Associated: United Kingdom.
GSI GmbH
German shareholder of FAIR GmbH
FAIR accelerator facility
Centerpiece is a superconducting ring accelerator with a circumference of 1100 meters. Additionally several storage rings and experiment sites.
GSI accelerator facility
Will be part of the FAIR accelerator facility and serve as first acceleration step.
Specifications of the FAIR accelerator facility
Highest particle intensity, highest precision, highest diversity of accelerated ions, high particle energies (correspond up to 99 percent of the speed of light), parallel operation of up to four experiments at the same time
Research at FAIR
„The universe in the laboratory“. FAIR provides new insights into the structure of matter and the evolution of the universe from the Big Bang until today. Here, it is possible to create states of matter in the laboratory that otherwise only exist in the universe e.g. in stellar explosions or in the core of planets.
Employees of GSI and FAIR
1,400 employees
Scientific users of the FAIR facility
3000 researchers from 50 countries.
Commissioning
The major part of the facility will be commissioned in 2022, full operation is planned for 2025.
Total cost
1,262 million Euro plus 95 million Euro site-related costs, thus overall cost frame 1,357 million Euro (price level of 2005 respectively).