GSI Gesellschaft fr Schwerionenforschung Centre for Heavy Ion

GSI - Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Darmstadt, Germany Mission: Accelerator Operation and Fundamental Research with the Facility Budget: 90 Mio. € (90% Bund, 10% Hessen) Employees: 1000 External Scientific Users: 1000 Large Scale Facilities: Accelerators and Experiments MC-Pad Kick-Off Meeting, MC-Pad CERNKick-Off , Jan. Meeting, 13 -14 CERN 2009, C. J. Schmidt , Jan. 13 -14 2009, C. J. Schmidt

Worldwide Cooperations more than 50 countries MC-Pad Kick-Off Meeting, CERN , Jan. 13 -14 2009, C. J. Schmidt

Structure of Matter Crystal Lattice (10 -3 m) Electron Atom (10 -10 m) Atomic Nucleus (10 -14 m) Proton/Neutron (10– 15 m) Cell (10 -5 m) Quarks (<10 -18 m) MC-Pad Kick-Off Meeting, CERN , Jan. 13 -14 2009, C. J. Schmidt

Rc 1505; 2 f 18 MC-Pad Kick-Off Meeting, CERN , Jan. 13 -14 2009, C. J. Schmidt GSI Unilac

Accelerator Facility Ring-Accelerator several Ge. V/u (4. 5 Ge. V for p) Ion Sources all elements Linear-Accelerator several 10 Me. V/u SIS UNI LAC FRS ESR Experimental Areas MC-Pad Kick-Off Meeting, CERN , Jan. 13 -14 2009, C. J. Schmidt

Synchrotron Resona MC-Pad Kick-Off Meeting, CERN , Jan. 13 -14 2009, C. J. Schmidt Rc 1569; 2 f 17

High Acceptance Di-Electron Spectrometer MC-Pad Kick-Off Meeting, CERN , Jan. 13 -14 2009, C. J. Schmidt

Heavy Ion Tumor Therapy developed at GSI

Engagement at LHC: The ALICE Experiment HMPID (RICH) @ high pt TOF PID TRD Electron ID TPC Tracking, PID ITS Vertexing Low pt tracking MUON m-pairs PMD g multiplicity PHOS g, p 0 EMCAL (not shown) Jet-calorimetry MC-Pad Kick-Off Meeting, CERN , Jan. 13 -14 2009, C. J. Schmidt

FAIR - the future accelerator center Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research MC-Pad Kick-Off Meeting, CERN , Jan. 13 -14 2009, C. J. Schmidt

Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research @ GSI Darmstadt FAIR 2015 existing GSI International project: Start of construction: 2007/2008 staged commissioning: 2011 -2014 Full operation, CBM: 2015 Observers: MC-Pad Kick-Off Meeting, CERN , Jan. 13 -14 2009, C. J. Schmidt

FAIR - Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research GSI today Future facility SIS 100/300 UNILAC SIS 18 CBM ESR HESR Super FRS PANDA Project Management: Start of construction: 2007/2008 First beams: 2011 Full operation, CBM: 2015 RESR CR From Anti-Protons to Uranium FLAIR NESR MC-Pad Kick-Off Meeting, CERN , Jan. 13 -14 2009, C. J. Schmidt 100 m

Interactions of Anti-Protons with nucleons and nuclei • • • Universal detector system Most technologies involved GSI detector-lab engaged in TPC (MC-Pad Project) and Silicon Tracker MC-Pad Kick-Off Meeting, CERN , Jan. 13 -14 2009, C. J. Schmidt

CBM Compressed Baryonic Matter Experiment TRDs (4, 6, 8 m) TOF (10 m) ECAL (12 m) RICH dipole magnet beam STS zoom-in target STS (5 - 100 cm) GSI Detector-Lab engaged in Silicon Tracker System (MC-Pad Project) and large area gas detectors MC-Pad Kick-Off Meeting, CERN , Jan. 13 -14 2009, C. J. Schmidt

CVD Diamond Detectors Diamond, a large bandgap semiconductor unsurpassed in signal speed (28 ps time res. ) enormous radiation hardness Poly – CVDD: size up to 4"Ø d = 12µm– 2 mm CCE ≈ 50% SC-CVDD: "standard": CCE = 100% d =300 -500µm; size=5 x 5 mm 2, Courtesy of Element Six (UK) Ltd. (Group De Beers) ”advanced/special”: High speed ASIC readout electronics for Diamond targeted by MC-Pad project P 11 d =40 -500µm; size=10 x 10 mm 2 Diamond expert at GSI: Eleni Berdermann/Detectorlab. MC-Pad Kick-Off Meeting, CERN , Jan. 13 -14 2009, C. J. Schmidt

MC-Pad Kick-Off Meeting, CERN , Jan. 13 -14 2009, C. J. Schmidt