| ABSTRACT: |
A future Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) is
planned at GSI in Darmstadt, Germany, which will be a
considerable upgrade of the existing facility and at the same
time transform GSI to an international research center. The
new accelerator complex will deliver high density ion beams
up to 35 GeV/nucleon for experiments with primary beams of
ions up to uranium and with secondary (radioactive) ion beams
and antiprotons. FAIR will open up unique opportunities for a
broad spectrum of research programs comprising a large
spectrum of QCD studies with cooled beams of antiprotons
(PANDA), nucleus-nucleus collisions at highest baryon
densities (CBM), nuclear structure and astrophysics
investigations with nuclei far off stability (NUSTAR), but
also plasma physics, atomic and material science as well as
radio-biological studies.
After a brief overview to this facility, I will introduce
experiments planned by the NuSTAR (Nuclear STructure,
Astrophysics and Reactions) community, the PANDA (antiProton
ANnihilation at
DArmstadt) experiment and then concentrate on CBM, the
Compressed Baryonic Matter experiment, aiming at the
exploration of the QCD phase diagram at highest baryon densities.
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