Starting to install the accelerator machine at FAIR
Installation of the first magnets has begun in the buildings of the international accelerator facility FAIR in Darmstadt. These superconducting magnets, each weighing around three tons, will form part of the 1.1km-long SIS100 ring accelerator, which will be able to accelerate ions of all elements up to 99% of the speed of light. The magnets are required to guide the particles in the ring accelerator, which is located 17m below ground level, and to keep them on course in the circular path.
These and other new developments at the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) research construction project in Darmstadt, can be seen in the latest GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung video, filmed at the construction site in September 2024:
At FAIR’s vast construction site, some 20 buildings dedicated to international state-of-the-art research are being built on a gross floor area of around 150,000m2. Planning and implementation of the construction project is being carried out by the ion42 consortium, consisting of the architectural firms DGI Bauwerk and schneider+schumacher. In planning the project the slogan “Form follows beam” was applied as a design principle, whereby buildings above-ground also follow the beamline, mimicking the same flowing movement. To watch how the entire construction site development has progressed over the past six years please click on this video link:
Photo above: D. Fehrenz, GSI/FAIR
Photos right: Lars Möller, GSI/FAIR