SPARC Collaboration: New Strategy for Storage Ring Physics at FAIR

• Main Authors: Stöhlker, Thomas, Litvinov, Yuri A, Bräuning-Demian, Angela, Lestinsky, Michael, Herfurth, Frank, Maier, Rudolf, Prasuhn, Dieter, Schuch, Reinhold, Steck, Markus
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 29-01-2014
• Subjects: Physics - Accelerator Physics; Physics - Atomic Physics
• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1401.7595

SPARC collaboration at FAIR pursues the worldwide unique research program by
utilizing storage ring and trapping facilities for highly-charged heavy ions.
The main focus is laid on the exploration of the physics at strong, ultra-short
electromagnetic fields including the fundamental interactions between electrons
and heavy nuclei as well as on the experiments at the border between nuclear
and atomic physics. Very recently SPARC worked out a realization scheme for
experiments with highly-charged heavy-ions at relativistic energies in the
High-Energy Storage Ring HESR and at very low-energies at the CRYRING coupled
to the present ESR. Both facilities provide unprecedented physics opportunities
already at the very early stage of FAIR operation. The installation of CRYRING,
dedicated Low-energy Storage Ring (LSR) for FLAIR, may even enable a much
earlier realisation of the physics program of FLAIR with slow anti-protons.