Experiments on extreme states of matter towards HIF at FAIR

Abstract

Abstract. The Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe (FAIR) will provide worldwide unique accelerator and experimental facilities allowing for a large variety of unprecedented frontier research in extreme state of matter physics and applied science. Indeed, it is the largest basic research project on the roadmap of the European Strategy Forum of Research Infrastructures (ESFRI), and it is cornerstone of the European Research Area. FAIR offers to scientists from the whole world an abundance of outstanding research opportunities, broader in scope than any other contemporary large-scale facility worldwide. More than 2500 scientists are involved in setting up and exploiting the FAIR facility. They will push the frontiers of our knowledge in plasma, nuclear, atomic, hadron and applied physics far ahead, with important implications also for other fields in science such as cosmology, astro and particle physics, and technology. It includes 14 initial experiments, which form the four scientific pillars of FAIR. The main thrust of intense heavy ion and laser beam-matter interaction research focuses on the structure and evolution of extreme state of matter on both a microscopic and on a cosmic scale.

All the Fun of the FAIR: Fundamental physics at the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research

“…More specifically, the planned HED@FAIR program aims on the equation of state as well as on the transport properties of different materials in the so far widely unexplored regions of the phase diagram related to warm dense matter and high-energy density (see Fig. 16) [189,190,191,192,193,202].…”

Direct-drive heavy ion beam inertial confinement fusion: a review, toward our future energy source

“…HIB has favorable characteristics to construct nuclear fusion power plant. HIB is generated by accelerator [12,[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23], and the energy efficiency of HIB accelerators is relatively high, specifically ~30-40% from electricity to HIB particle energy. The energy efficiency is called driver efficiency η d in ICF.…”

“…The energy efficiency is called driver efficiency η d in ICF. Accelerators also have a flexibility to control the HIB parameters, for example, focusing position, beam focal radius, particle energy distribution in a beam, ion energy, pulse length, pulse shape, HIB axis oscillation/wobbling motion, operating repetition rate, etc [12,[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]. Another important preferable feature is to deposit HIB energy inside a material.…”

Commissioning of the PRIOR proton microscope

“…The capability of radiographic imaging of dynamic systems with unprecedented spatial, temporal and density resolution is of considerable interest for plasma physics and materials research. Therefore high energy proton microscopy (HEPM) is seen as a key diagnostic for high energy density physics experiments with intense heavy ion and proton beams, which are planned at the future Facility for Anti-proton and Ion Research (FAIR) in Darmstadt, Germany 8 . The worldwide unique facility called PRIOR (Proton Microscope for FAIR) will employ highenergy (2 -5 GeV), high-intensity (up to 2.5•10 13 protons a) Electronic mail: d.varentsov@gsi.de b) Presently at "Skolkovo" Foundation, Russia c) Presently at European XFEL GmbH, Hamburg, Germany d) Presently at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany per pulse) proton beams from the SIS-100 synchrotron at FAIR for multidisciplinary research such as experiments on fundamental properties of materials in extreme dynamic environments generated by different drivers (pulsed power generators, high-energy lasers, gas guns or explosive-driven generators) prominent for warm dense matter research and high energy density physics as well as the PaNTERA (Proton Therapy and Radiography) experiment [9][10][11][12] for biophysics and medicine.…”