particles and heavy ions more than a kilometer long and is presently under construction at the site of GSI in Darmstadt. Particles and heavy ions such as antiprotons, gold and lead ions can be accelerated [...] Darmstadt (TUDa), the Justus-Liebig University Giessen (JLU) and the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt (GSI). In total more than 50 professors and principal investigators from these [...] HFHF research programme includes moreover applied research, for which the accelerated particles and ions will be used to develop new materials and to further develop proven cancer therapies through irradiation

GSI and in the future at FAIR ions are accelerated to high energies to produce exotic particles. Here, exotic particles are heavy, highly charged stable or short lived ions and antiprotons. However, to [...] exceptional precision when observing and measuring different properties it is necessary to slow the ions down and store them. The department Decelerators supervises and operates the decelerator facility

y Group - LMU München (M. Sewtz) Ion Optics and TOF Mass Spectroscopy Group - Universität Giessen (W. Plaß) Ion trapping Group MATS - Universität Mainz (K. Blaum) Ion trapping Group HGW/Clustertrap -

the starting point of acceleration of ions. On a length of 120 meters ions of all kinds can be accelerated up to 20 percent speed of light (60.000 km/s). The ions are used for experiments in experimental

(UNILAC), heavy-ion synchrotron (SIS), fragment separator (FRS), and both storage rings ESR and CRYRING@ESR , makes it possible to accelerate, store, and cool slow to relativistic ion beams of every element [...] isotopes are being investigated. The main interest is focused upon the very highly charged heavy ions. These unique research possibilities stimulate a broad range of interesting experiments in both atomic

will provide access for experiments with highly relativistic stored ions, CRYRING@ESR yields the domain of slow highly charged ions. Thus, both new facilities will offer complimentary regimes. We have [...] single stored ions to currents of several mA can be measured. Owing to its large frequency bandwidth, Schottky detectors are indispensable detectors for studies of various decays of ions stored in a ring [...] investigations at the presently running Experimental Storage Ring ESR of GSI, as well as other heavy-ion storage rings worldwide (e.g. TSR-ISOLDE in Heidelberg/CERN, CRYRING@ESR , or Experimental Cooler-Storage

to 2009, tumor patients were successfully treated with ion beams at GSI. In doing so, tumors in the head were irradiated by accelerated carbon ions, tumors that could not be treated with conventional therapy [...] complex system of storage rings: the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research FAIR . At the facility, highly intense and highly energetic ion beams and antiproton beams of best quality will be available for [...] of nuclear physical basic research at GSI is the study of hot and dense nuclear matter. With heavy ion beams, the multiple varieties of nuclear matter, from the "liquid" normal state over the free nucleon

importance for laser spectroscopy of relativistic ion beams in the ESR, HESR and CRYRING, and, in addition, for investigations of cold, trapped ions in ion traps. In the framework of this BMBF research c [...] structure and dynamics of highly charged ions, and on the other hand by tests of fundamental constants. The laser-spectroscopic investigations range from heavy ions at relativistic velocities in storage rings [...] websites of the individual collaboration partners, as listed below. Laser spectroscopy of highly charged ions and exotic atoms is an important part of the current GSI atomic physics research program, and will

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