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Budget: 90 Mio. € (90% Bund,10% Hessen)

External Scientific Users: 1000

Employees: 1000

Large Scale Facilities: Accelerators and Experiments

GSI - Gesellschaft für SchwerionenforschungCentre for Heavy Ion Research, Darmstadt, Germany

Mission: Accelerator Operation and Fundamental Research with the Facility

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Worldwide Cooperations more than 50 countries

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Matter

Crystal Lattice

Atom

Atomic Nucleus

Proton/Neutron

Quarks

Structure of Matter

Cell

(10-3 m)

(10-10 m)

(10-14 m)

(10–15 m)

(<10-18 m)

(10-5 m)

Electron

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Rc 1505; 2f18

GSI Unilac

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Accelerator Facility

SIS

FRS

ESR

Experimental Areas

Ion Sources

UNILAC

Linear-Acceleratorseveral 10 MeV/u

Ring-Acceleratorseveral GeV/u (4.5 GeV for p)

all elements

MC-Pad Kick-Off Meeting, CERN , Jan. 13-14 2009, C.J. Schmidt Rc 1569; 2f17

Synchrotron Resonator

MC-Pad Kick-Off Meeting, CERN , Jan. 13-14 2009, C.J. SchmidtHigh Acceptance Di-Electron Spectrometer

Heavy Ion Tumor Therapy developed at GSI

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Engagement at LHC: The ALICE Experiment

PHOS,0

MUON -pairs PMD

multiplicity

ITSVertexingLow pt tracking

TPCTracking, PID

TRDElectron ID

TOFPID

HMPIDPID (RICH) @ high pt

EMCAL (not shown)Jet-calorimetry

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Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research

FAIR - the future accelerator center

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FFacility for acility for AAntiproton and ntiproton and IIon on RResearch esearch @ GSI Darmstadt @ GSI Darmstadt

existing GSIexisting GSI

FAIR FAIR 20152015

Observers:Observers:

Start of construction: 2007/2008

staged commissioning: 2011-2014Full operation, CBM: 2015

International project:International project:

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GSI todayGSI today

FAIR - FAIR - FFacility for acility for AAntiproton and ntiproton and IIon on RResearchesearch

100 m

UNILAC SIS 18

SIS 100/300

HESR

PANDA SuperFRS

NESR

CRRESR

ESR

FLAIR

CBM

Future facilityFuture facility

Project Management: Start of construction: 2007/2008First beams: 2011Full operation, CBM: 2015

From Anti-Protons

to Uranium

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Interactions of Anti-Protons with nucleons and nuclei

• Universal detector system

• Most technologies involved

• GSI detector-lab engaged in TPC (MC-Pad Project) and Silicon Tracker

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beam

target

STSSTS(5 - 100 cm)(5 - 100 cm)

TRDs(4,6, 8 m)

TOF(10 m)

ECAL(12 m)

RICH

dipole magnet

CBMCBM

STS zoom-in

Compressed Baryonic Matter Experiment

GSI Detector-Lab engagedin Silicon Tracker System (MC-Pad Project) and large area gas detectors

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Courtesy of Element Six (UK) Ltd. (Group De Beers)Courtesy of Element Six (UK) Ltd. (Group De Beers)

Poly – CVDD:

size up to 4"Ø

d = 12µm–2mm

CCE ≈ 50%

SC-CVDD:

"standard": CCE = 100%

d =300-500µm; size=5x5mm2,

”advanced/special”:

d =40-500µm; size=10x10mm2

CVD Diamond Detectors

Diamond, a large bandgap semiconductor

unsurpassed in signal speed (28 ps time res.)

enormous radiation hardness

Diamond expert at GSI: Eleni Berdermann/Detectorlab.

High speed ASIC readout electronics for Diamond targeted by MC-Pad project P11

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