Contact address Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) W. Quint Planck-Str. 1, D-64291 Darmstadt, DE Tel. +49-6159-71 2141 [email protected] FLAIR - Facility for Low-Energy Antiproton and Heavy- Ion Research at the future facility FAIR @ Darmstadt/Germany FLAIR Steering Committee E. Widmann J. Walz W. Quint H. Danared M. Hori H. Knudsen M. Steck T. Stöhlker A. Trzcinska J. Ullrich Y. Yamazaki M. Holzscheiter Tokyo MPQ GSI Stockholm CERN Aarhus GSI GSI Warsaw Heidelberg Tokyo Pbar Medical UNILAC SIS FRS ESR 100 m SIS 100/300 HESR Super FRS CR RESR FLAIR NESR Nuclear Structure Physics and Nuclear Astrophysics with RIBs Hadron Physics with Antiproton Beams Physics of Nuclear Matter with Relativistic Nuclear Collisions Atomic Physics and Fundamental Interactions Highly charged ions Low-energy antiprotons Laser cooling Plasma Physics, Material Science, Biophysics • Austria (Vienna IMEP, TU) • Canada (York) • Denmark (Aarhus, ISA) • France (P. & M. Curie, Paris) • Germany (GSI, Dresden, Frankfurt, Freiburg, München, Giessen, Heidelberg, Jülich, Mainz, Tübingen) • Hungary (Budapest, Debrezen, ATOMKI) • Italy (Bologna, Firenze, Genova, Torino) • Japan (Tokyo, Saitama (RIKEN)) • Netherlands (Amsterdam U, FOM) • Poland (Warsaw U, Soltan Inst.) • Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg) • Sweden (Stockholm U, Manne Siegbahn Laboratory) • United Kingdom (Swansea) • USA (Albuquerque, Harvard, pbar Medical, Texas A&M) 47 institutions 14 countries • NESR: –Pbar & Ions • LSR: –Magnetic ring – E min = 300 keV • USR: –Electrostatic ring – E min = 20 keV • Atomic phys. cave: –ions • HITRAP: –Pbar and ions –extracted at 5 keV • Spectroscopy for tests of CPT and QED –Antiprotonic atoms (pbar-He, pbar-p), antihydrogen • Gravitation of antimatter –Trapped and laser-cooled antihydrogen • Atomic collisions –Ionization, energy loss, antimatter-matter collisions • Antiprotons as hadronic probes –X-rays of light antiprotonic atoms: low-energy QCD –X-rays of neutron-rich nuclei: nuclear structure (halo) –Antineutron interaction –Strangeness –2 production • Medical applications: tumor therapy FLAIR Community Gravitational Acceleration of Antimatter • Test of equivalence principle • Highest precision reachable with neutral antimatter • Ultra-cold antihydrogen atoms: sympathetic cooling of H + CPT-Tests with Antiprotonic Atoms and Antihydrogen Sub-Femtosecond Correlated Sub-Femtosecond Correlated Dynamics Probed with Antiprotons Dynamics Probed with Antiprotons t =30 … 5 fs ~~~ ~~~~ ~~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~~ ~~~ I ≥ 10 15 W/cm 2 t = 5 fs…0.1as ≈150 attosec. Antihydrogen Ground-State Hyperfine Structure Nuclear Periphery with Antiprotonic Atoms in a Nested Penning Trap