Around 110 high school students from across Hesse visited the GSI/FAIR campus on Saturday, November 23, for the 25th anniversary of the “Saturday Morning Physics” event series. Through guided tours of the research facilities, the students gained exciting insights into current physics research, explored the existing GSI particle accelerators and experiments and learned about the construction of the international accelerator facility FAIR.

On Thursday, November 21, 2024, starting at 6:00 p.m., GSI/FAIR offers a public screening of the Darmstadt science fiction series “Anomalie” in the lecture hall, Planckstraße 1, 64291 Darmstadt. The series — produced by Darmstadt filmmakers “Tag & Nacht Media” — was filmed in parts at GSI/FAIR. Among other things, the film features the main control room of the GSI/FAIR accelerator facility and the Crystal Ball Detector as a time machine. The event will provide an insight into the series together…

Have you ever wondered how long it took our Sun to form in its stellar nursery? An international collaboration of scientists is now closer to an answer. They succeeded in the measurement of the bound-state beta decay of fully-ionised thallium ions at the Experimental Storage Ring (ESR) of GSI/FAIR. This measurement has profound effects on the production of radioactive lead in asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars and can be used to help determine the Sun’s formation time. The results ...

Where does the periodic table of chemical elements end and which processes lead to the existence of heavy elements? An international research team reports on experiments performed at the GSI/FAIR accelerator facility and at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz to come closer to an answer. They gained insight into the structure of atomic nuclei of fermium (element 100) with different numbers of neutrons. Using forefront laser spectroscopy techniques, they traced the evolution of the nuclear charge…

An international team led by scientists of GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz, succeeded in determining the chemical properties of the artificially produced superheavy elements moscovium and nihonium (elements 115 and 113). Moscovium thus becomes the heaviest element ever chemically studied. Both of the newly characterized elements are more chemically reactive than flerovium (element 114), which was previously studied at GSI/FAIR. The…

The PANDA Collaboration recently awarded the PANDA Theory PhD Prize for the fourth time. Every two years, this prize honors outstanding doctoral theses by young researchers. This year, Dr. Roberto Bruschini (Ohio State University) has received the award for his doctoral thesis “Unified Study of Spectrum and Properties of Heavy Mesons at Energies below and above Meson-Meson Thresholds”. The PANDA Theory PhD Prize was handed over at the recent Panda Collaboration meeting at GSI in Darmstadt by…

The State Secretary in the Hessian Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, Viticulture, Forestry, Hunting and Homeland, Michael Ruhl, recently informed himself about the current scientific activities at GSI/FAIR and the progress of the accelerator center FAIR, currently being built at GSI. He was accompanied by his personal advisor Frank Backhaus and Dr. Sebastian Huber, head of the “Radiation Protection, Large Accelerators, Emergency Protection” department. The guests were welcomed...

The 26th International Conference on Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Sources (ECRIS 2024) recently took place in Darmstadt. Organized by the Ion Sources Department of the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, the conference brought together leading international scientists and engineers working on the development, operation, and applications of ECR ion sources. The ECRIS conference series is regarded to be the key platform for the exchanging research results and technological…

Recently, Prof. Abhay Karandikar, Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Science & Technology (DST) together with a delegation from India visited FAIR. This visit took place on invitation by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), which also participated in the visit with a delegation led by Stefan Müller, Director General Provision for the Future – Basic Research and Research for Sustainable Development, BMBF. They were accompanied by ...