The FAIR ground-breaking took place on July 4, 2017.
A great day for all who love hadron and nuclear physics. An important milestone to get the job done. We are happy and proud of being part of this endeavor.

The construction of the international accelerator facility FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research) has begun. The start of building construction and civil engineering work is a crucial moment for one of the largest construction projects for scientific research worldwide. On July 4, 2017, the groundbreaking ceremony was held for the large ring accelerator SIS 100, which will be the key component of the future accelerator facility FAIR. The construction site is located to the northeast of GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt.

We invite you to read the official FAIR press release of the ground-breaking ceremony!

Memorandum of Understanding between the PANDA and the HADES collaborations
 

Purpose of the agreement:

This document regulates the cooperation for joint experiments with the HADES spectrometer in the context of FAIR Phase-0 under participation of the HADES collaboration and a group of members of the PANDA collaboration, herein after called PANDA@HADES. The objective of PANDA@HADES is to participate in selected HADES experiments in the period before the start of the PANDA experiment. The interest of the group is two-fold. First, technology developed for the PANDA detector systems, read-out electronics, software modules etc. can be used and tested under realistic experiment conditions. Second, the group can participate in physics anlaysis and publication of results so to valorize the effort and support by national funding agencies towards a realization of the PANDA project. The HADES collaboration, on the other hand, can strengthen the research program realized with the HADES detector system at FAIR Phase-0 by adding instrumentation, manpower and new ideas. The goal is to identify, execute and analyze joint experiments and so prepare joint publications.