Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 150, 235-240 (2007)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2007-00312-7

The Rare-Isotope-Beam facility at FAIR

GSI Darmstadt, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ionenforschung, Germany

Received: 31 January 2007
Published online: 8 December 2007

Abstract

FAIR, a next-generation facility for research with antiprotons and ions, will provide the European and international science community with a technically novel and in many respects unique accelerator system for a multidisciplinary scientific program. Intense rare-isotope beams, an integral part of the FAIR project, and advanced experimental concepts promise a new quality in investigations of nuclei far away from stability. A brief description of FAIR with emphasis on radioactive beams is presented.