List of available infrastructures and beams

Beams

GSI provides ion beams of all stable elements up to uranium with energies from the Coulomb barrier up to 2 AGeV. In addition, radioactive and cooled stable beams with high charge states up to U92+ can be delivered. Moreover, also secondary pion beams with momenta from 0.5 GeV/c to 2.5 GeV/c are available.

The high standards of the accelerators are complemented by a large number of technically highly advanced experimental facilities and set-ups, the most important of which are listed in the following:

Equipment/Projects dedicated to nuclear science and applications:

  • The velocity filter SHIP for the separation and detection of super-heavy elements.
  • SHIPTRAP, a Penning trap behind the SHIP spectrometer for nuclear structure and atomic physics studies on very heavy nuclei/atoms.
  • The new gas-filled separator TASCA for heavy element studies.
  • A large projectile fragment separator (FRS) for the production and in-beam separation of nuclei far off stability.
  • The cooler-storage ring ESR, equipped with powerful stochastic and electron cooling devices, Schottky mass as well as time-of-flight mass spectroscopy for mass measurements of short lived nuclei, an internal gas-jet target, a collinear laserspectroscopy system and various X-ray and position sensitive particle detectors, for in-ring (reaction) experiments.
  • The R3B nuclear reaction set-up to study collective states and complete kinematics reactions with exotic nuclear beams; an upgrade of that facility is presently ongoing.

Equipment/Projects dedicated to other/multidisciplinary research:

  • Experimental stations for atomic physics studies (channelling investigations with cooled ion beams extracted from the ESR, etc.)
  • High power density beam bunches and various equipment for plasma physics research.
  • Experimental stations and a cell biology laboratory for research into the radio-biological effects of ion beams
  • Experimental stations and various instrumentation (incl. the new Materials Research Branch at the UNILAC) for applications of high and low energy heavy ion beams in materials research and modification (e. g. a heavy-ion microprobe, a diamond anvil cell for irradiating samples under high pressure, diagnostic tools like raster tunnel and raster scanning microscopy, etc.).
  • Multipurpose/Test Stations, e.g. for tests of electronic components, or of detectors built for particle/nuclear physics and also for space missions.