Oct 8 – 12, 2018
US/Central timezone
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“Life on construction site of FAIR”

Not scheduled
15m
Poster

Speakers

Ms Ina Pschorn (GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Darmstadt / Germany)Mr Torsten Miertsch (GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Darmstadt, Germany)Mr Vasileios Velonas (GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Darmstadt / Germany)

Description

One of the largest accelerator systems in the world is being built at GSI in Darmstadt / Germany. The centerpiece is a ring accelerator with 1100 meters circumference in about 18 meters below ground. From the year 2025 approximately 3000 scientists from all over the world will work at FAIR, the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe. After a period of preliminary work, the groundbreaking ceremony for FAIR took place in summer 2017. Since then great impressive ground work is done, accompanied by surveying activities done by a subcontractor, like monitoring the earth excavation, survey of in-ground pipelines, settlement measurements on existing neighboring GSI facility, control measurements of the surface network and marking main tunnel axes within the deep building pit. Furthermore, work on transfer points is presented, which will already in this status serve as interface between pure construction surveying and precise accelerator alignment.

Primary authors

Mr Matthias Stenglein (ÖbVI Heinen und Fischer, Groß-Zimmern/Germany) Mr Timo Grub (ÖbVI Heinen und Fischer, Groß-Zimmern/Germany)

Co-authors

Mr Andreas Junge (GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Darmstadt / Germany) Ms Ina Pschorn (GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Darmstadt / Germany) Mrs Kerstin Knappmeier (GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Darmstadt / Germany) Mr Torsten Miertsch (GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Darmstadt, Germany) Mr Vasileios Velonas (GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Darmstadt / Germany)

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