Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung
The
Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung mbH (GSI, Institute for Heavy Ion Research) in the
Wixhausen section of
Darmstadt,
Germany is a federally funded heavy
ion research center.
The laboratory performs basic and applied research in physics and related natural science disciplines. Main fields of study include
plasma physics,
atomic physics,
nuclear structure and reactions research and medical research.
The chief tool is the heavy ion
accelerator facility consisting of
UNILAC, the Universal Linear Accelerator (energy of 2 - 20
MeV per
nucleon), SIS 18, the heavy-ion synchrotron (1 - 2
GeV/u) and ESR, the experimental storage ring (0.5 - 1 GeV/u) and
FRS. The UNILAC was commissioned in 1975, the SIS 18 and the ESR were added in 1990 boosting the ion acceleration from 10% of light speed to 90%.
The lab is a member of the
Hermann von Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF), an association of national research centers.
Elements discovered at GSI:
Meitnerium (1982),
Hassium (1984),
Darmstadtium (1994),
Roentgenium (1994),
Ununbium (1996).
* Two high-energy
lasers, the
nhelix (
Nanosecond
High
Energy
Laser for Heavy
Ion E
xperiments) and the
Phelix (
Petawatt
High
Energy
Laser for Heavy
Ion E
xperiments).
* A
Large
Area
Neutron
Detector (
LAND).
GANIL,
RIKEN,
Dubna,
CERN,
MSU.
*
HGF*
GSI
