FAIR GSI - Universe in the Lab

23/11/2024

🎉🎊25 years of Saturday Morning Physics!🎊🎉
The visit at GSI/FAIR is traditionally a part of the series organized by the TU Darmstadt and we showed 110 students our ⚡️particle accelerators⚡️ and 🔎experiments🔍.

Around 110 high school students from across Hesse visited the GSI/FAIR campus on Saturday, November 23, for the 25th anniversary of the “Saturday Morning Physics” event series. Through guided tours of the research facilities, the students gained exciting insights into current physics research, e...

30/09/2024

🎉 Congratulations🎉 to Dr. Stefan Dickopf for receiving this year's SPARC PhD Award for the high-precision determination of the nuclear moment of beryllium-9 and the zero-field-splitting of its hyperfine structure. The achieved accuracy exceeds the one from previous measurements by up to two orders of magnitude.

This year's SPARC collaboration PhD Prize was awarded to Dr. Stephan Dickopf from the University of Heidelberg and the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics for his thesis entitled “High-precision Penning-trap measurements of the magnetic moments and hyperfine splitting in hydrogen-like berylli...

16/09/2024

🎉 Successful acceleration! 🎉

Our guests, young and old, were able to test out particle acceleration at our booth at the trade fair of Gewerbeverein Arheilgen and learn how we produce new chemical elements at our facility.

https://www.gsi.de/en/start/news/details/2024/09/16/gewerbeschau-arheilgen

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05/09/2024

🎉Congratulations! 🎉 Dr. Zewei Xiong has received a prestigious ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The funding is one of Europe's most important research awards, aimed at talented young scientists at an early career stage to show their potential as a research leader. Dr. Zewei Xiong is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher in the Nuclear Astrophysics and Structure Department at GSI/FAIR.

Dr. Zewei Xiong has received a prestigious ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The funding is one of Europe's most important research awards, aimed at talented young scientists at an early career stage to show their potential as a research leader. Dr. Zewei Xiong is currentl...

02/09/2024

Currently, 15 young researchers from ten countries have the unique opportunity to focus intensively on the topic of cosmic radiation. The renowned ESA-FAIR Space Radiation Summer School is jointly organized by the ESA - European Space Agency and FAIR/GSI. The participants come from various European countries as well as Canada and the USA.

https://www.gsi.de/en/start/news/details/2024/09/02/esa-und-fair-summer-school

© A. Le Gall/ESA

The “ESA FAIR Space Radiation Summer School 2024” is entering a new round: With its first-class training program and high-level expertise, linked to a global network, the training offer for young scientists is once again attracting great international interest this year. Currently, 15 young rese...

08/08/2024

🔎Have a look: 🔎 Bettina Lommel, Head of our Target Laboratory, is Physicist of the Week! 🤩😍

Physikerin der Woche - Dr. Bettina Lommel

Bettina is an experimental solid-state physicist with a background in single crystal growth and materials development. At GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung and FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research) in Darmstadt, she heads the Target Laboratory, a thin-film laboratory for basic research with heavy ions. In the lab, high-purity thin films, some of which are fabricated from highly enriched and rare isotopes, are produced over a wide thickness range for application as stripper films, backing, time-of-flight films, or targets at the heavy-ion accelerator or in experiments for astrophysics, biophysics, atomic physics, material research, nuclear physics or plasma physics.

Bettina has been active in Mentoring Hessen for more than 20 years, advising many aspiring female physicists and accompanying them part of the way. Her role as elected spokesperson of the Scientific-Technical Council of GSI and as Chair of the Assembly of Scientific-Technical Councils of the Helmholtz Association gives her a deep insight into the scientific landscape and science organization in Germany.

https://www.dpg-physik.de/vereinigungen/fachuebergreifend/ak/akc/publikationen/physikerin-der-woche/physikerin-der-woche-2024

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