Nordic Winter Meeting on Physics @ FAIR

This presentation outlines the current status of the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR). It is expected that the actual construction of the facility will commence in 2010 as the project has raised more than one billion euro in funding. The sequence and scope of the construction will be described. Also the physics program of FAIR, based on the acquired funding, will be presented.

The FAIR project aims at producing very dense secondary beams of rare isotopes and antiprotons. The concept reposes on two pillars: the production of high-intensity high-energy primary beams (all ions from protons up to bare Uranium) and the implementation of dedicated beam cooling techniques to compress the secondary beams. Versatile parallel operation of the accelerator facility with...