Heavy ion fusion research at GSI

Heavy-Ion Therapy at GSI: Progress Report

In 2000 three Carbon beam blocks were used to treat 32 patients suffering from skull base tumors such as chordomas, chondrosarcomas, adenoid cystic carcinomas and other less frequent indications. Partially these ongoing clinical trials have reached phase II level. In total 73 patients have been treated within this experimental programme and the overwhelming part of treatments had a curative int...

Heavy Ion Tumor Therapy at GSI closed

These innovations have been the result of a long standing research and development in radiobiological and physical experiments, design and construction of a dedicated fast magnetic deflection system and its electronic control , treatment planning and accelerator developments. From the beginning of the pilot project all these innovations were available and used without any major restriction. Tre...

The GSI heavy ion microbeam

Bunch Compression in the Heavy Ion Synchrotron SIS at GSI

Heating matter by heavy ion beams is a central aim of the plasma physics group at GSI. In order to maximize the energy deposition of the beam the total number of ions has to be captured in a single bunch with a pulse length as short as possible. Here we present first experimental results on the pulse compression in the SIS with the existing RF cavities. First the initially four bunches are reca...

Description of Heavy Ion Reactions at GSI Energies

We have investigated the connection between different forms of the nucleon-nucleon interaction, nuclear matter and heavy-ion reactions. In particular, the dilepton and σmeson production in the experiments FOPI and HADES at the GSI have been studied. In [1, 2] two microscopic models, UrQMD and QGSM, have been employed to study the formation of locally equilibrated hot and dense nuclear matter in...