HB2025 - the 71st ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics workshop on High-Intensity and High-Brightness Hadron Beams

The first steps in FAIR commissioning

WEIAB02

Oct 22, 2025, 9:00 AM

30m

Room B (Conference Center)

Invited Oral Presentation WGD:Operations and Commissioning WEIAB WGD invited oral

Speaker

Vsevolod Kamerdzhiev (GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research)

Description

The international Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) is being built at the GSI Helmholtz Centre in Darmstadt. The first project stage includes the superconducting 100 Tm heavy ion synchrotron SIS100, the Super Fragment Separator, and associated beam transport lines. The GSI's ion sources, UNILAC and SIS18 will provide the beams. Installation work in the FAIR accelerator tunnels and supply buildings started 2024. The sub-project FAIR Commissioning focuses on providing a practical organizational framework and coordinating all commissioning activities comprising hardware and beam commissioning. The integrated commissioning planning interfaces to the installation activities and takes into account the operation of the facility. The commissioning of the cryogenic plant began in August 2025. Hardware commissioning of the transport line is scheduled to start Q2/2026 followed by the First Beam Event at the end of 2026. This marks the begin of beam commissioning. The presentation outlines the commissioning strategy, timeline, and current status of the project.