CRYRING@ESR - Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research

Prof. Dr. Horst Stöcker
GSI Helmholtzzentrum für
Schwerionenforschung GmbH
Planckstr. 1
Gespeicherte und gekühlte Ionen
Stored and Cooled Ions
Prof. Dr. Klaus Blaum
Tel: 06221-516 850/1
Fax: 06221-516 852
sekretariat.blaum@mpi-hd.mpg.de
64291 Darmstadt
25. April 2012
Dear Professor Stöcker, lieber Horst,
On behalf of the FLAIR collaboration we would like to express our strong support for the
CRYRING@ESR project, and we appreciate very much the future option of a connection to
the Super-FRS.
Since FLAIR is not included in the start-up version of FAIR, the CRYRING@ESR project
provides excellent possibilities to pursue already some of our planned test experiments and
detector tests, especially in view of the delay in the construction of the New Experimental
Storage Ring (NESR), which is a mandatory ring for FLAIR. CRYRING@ESR will provide
low energetic highly charged heavy ion beams, one of the main experimental programs of
FLAIR, see the LSR-project within FLAIR.
In addition, a continuous running of CRYRING and the installation of HITRAP at its final
position will allow a fast and efficient start of the physics program of FLAIR@FAIR.
In summary, we see the CRYRING@ESR installation as an excellent initiative towards the
low-energetic storage ring projects at FAIR.
With our best regards,
KLAUS BLAUM
Spokesperson of the FLAIR Collaboration
EBERHARD WIDMANN
Co-Spokesperson of the FLAIR Collaboration