1. GSI and FAIR - EPICS status report - Peter Zumbruch Experiment control systems group GSI (KS/EE)

2. March 12, 2008EPICS at GSI and FAIR - status report - Peter Zumbruch, GSI 2

3. March 12, 2008EPICS at GSI and FAIR - status report - Peter Zumbruch, GSI 3 Budget: 90 Mio. € (90% Federal,10% State of Hessen) External Scientific Users: 1000 Employees: 1000 Large Scale Facilities: Accelerators and Experiments GSI - Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung Centre for Heavy Ion Research

4. March 12, 2008EPICS at GSI and FAIR - status report - Peter Zumbruch, GSI 4 Accelerator Facility SIS FRS ESR Experimental Areas Ion Sources UNILAC Linear-Accelerator 20% speed of light Ring-Accelerator 90% speed of light all elements for heavy Ions

5. March 12, 2008EPICS at GSI and FAIR - status report - Peter Zumbruch, GSI 5 HADES High Acceptance DiElectron Spectrometer fully EPICS controlled (B.Kolb), running experiment ~ 80,000 physical channels ~ 10,000 PV

6. March 12, 2008EPICS at GSI and FAIR - status report - Peter Zumbruch, GSI 6 Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research Future Accelerator Complex at GSI

7. March 12, 2008EPICS at GSI and FAIR - status report - Peter Zumbruch, GSI 7 FAIR – Participating Countries

8. March 12, 2008EPICS at GSI and FAIR - status report - Peter Zumbruch, GSI 8 FAIR – Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research 100 m

9. March 12, 2008EPICS at GSI and FAIR - status report - Peter Zumbruch, GSI 9 FAIR – Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research GSI-today all kind of ions max. 90% speed of light GSI-tomorrow / FAIR new isotopes Anti-Protons 10.000 times more sensitive higher speed Highest Beam Intensities Brilliant Beam Quality Higher Beam Energies Highest Beam Power Parallel Operation 1.2 Billion Euro 2008-2015

10. March 12, 2008EPICS at GSI and FAIR - status report - Peter Zumbruch, GSI 10 FAIR – Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research

11. March 12, 2008EPICS at GSI and FAIR - status report - Peter Zumbruch, GSI 11 FAIR at GSI-Darmstadt Research with beams of instable isotopes Nuclei far from stability, element generation Nuclear astrophysics Research with Antiprotons Hadron-Spectroscopy, Hypernuclei, in-medium effects Quark-Gluon degrees of freedom, non-pert. QCD Antiprotons, bound, low energy (FLAIR) Nuclei-Nuclei collision at hight energies Compressed and hot nuclear matter, phase transitions Deconfinement, strange matter Ion- and Laser-induced Plasmas Highest energy densities in matter, equation of state Fundamental research and applications QED of strong fields, Femtoseconds-Laser

12. March 12, 2008EPICS at GSI and FAIR - status report - Peter Zumbruch, GSI 12 FAIR: Research fields Structure of the nucleon, origin of mass, quark-gluon interaction Structure of nuclei, halo nuclei Strange quarks (bound) in nuclei Charmed quarks Origin of the elements, white dwarfs, super novae, neutron stars evolution of stars Dense and hot nuclear matter, quark-gluon plasma, early phases of the universe relativistic quantum chromo dynamics under all circumstances, non- perturbative

13. March 12, 2008EPICS at GSI and FAIR - status report - Peter Zumbruch, GSI 13 Experiments

14. March 12, 2008EPICS at GSI and FAIR - status report - Peter Zumbruch, GSI 14 Experiments

15. March 12, 2008EPICS at GSI and FAIR - status report - Peter Zumbruch, GSI 15 Experiments Collaborations showing interest in EPICS NuSTAR / SGFDC PANDA CBM

16. March 12, 2008EPICS at GSI and FAIR - status report - Peter Zumbruch, GSI 16

17. March 12, 2008EPICS at GSI and FAIR - status report - Peter Zumbruch, GSI 17 CBM

18. March 12, 2008EPICS at GSI and FAIR - status report - Peter Zumbruch, GSI 18 EPICS at GSI Experimental Electronics Group Control Systems Group –Support for EPICS Current projects: –Embedded Systems (q.v. Presentation this afternoon) ETRAX based EPICS applications (HADES, CBM) Xilinx FGPA based (CBM) –Interfaces DIM Interface http://wiki.gsi.de/Epics

19. March 12, 2008EPICS at GSI and FAIR - status report - Peter Zumbruch, GSI 19 Thank you for your attention.