TA-CON-2018-023

The PANDA experiment, is a core project of the future Facility for
Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) at GSI in Darmstadt. It will investigate
antiproton proton annihilations on nucleons and nuclei with the aim to explore fundamental
questions in the nonperturbative regime of QCD as the origine of the hadron mass. The multi-purpose
detector is currently under construction. The intense and high quality anti-proton beam will span
the momentum range between 1.5 and 15 GeV/c. The detection of hadrons, leptons, and photons in the final states
will be possible with very high precision. A rich physics program as resonances in the charmonium and open charm region, electromagnetic form factors, hyper nuclear physics will be investigated. The worldwide collaboration gathers today more than 450 physicists from 60 institutions in 19 countries. The talk will give an overview of the PANDA experiment and of the most important aspects of the physics program.
It will focus on the topics that will be investigated as soon as the facility is operational.