Hadron physics at the up-coming FAIR accelerator facility
Prof. Dr. Frank Maas (Mainz)

The Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) is an accelerator complex which will deliver beams of ions and antiprotons with unprecedented intensities for a variety of stable and rare isotopes and antiproton beams.
The international facility will operate at GSI in Darmstadt and will allow simultaneous experiments in a wide range from nuclear physics, atomic physics, heavy ion physics, hadron physics to plasma physics and more. Among the many research projects, hadron physics will be explored in the frame work of stored and cooled antiproton beams with momentum up to 5 GeV/c using the PANDA detector. After an overview over the main research topics and possibilities, the hadron physics program will be discussed in more detail.