The Initial Design Scheme of HIAF Got Approved

    On May 15th, the initial design scheme of High Intensity Heavy-ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF) gets approved from Chinese Academy of Sciences, which marks HIAF officially came in the evaluation stage of investment estimates. 

    Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences undertakes construction as juridical entity. The construction site is in Huizhou, Guangdong Province, the construction area is 33,120 square meters, and the construction period is 7 years.

    HIAF will build a high intensity heavy-ion accelerator with international leading level. The accelerator has the ability of generating nuclide extremely far from stability, can provide the highest peak current low-energy heavy ion beams in the world, generates the highest energy of 4.25 GeV per nuclear of pulsed ion beam and has the highest accuracy of nucleus’s mass measuring spectrometer all over the world. It offers internationally advanced conditions for identifying new nuclides, expanding the nuclide chart and studying the structure and reaction mechanism of weakly bound nucleus, especially for accurately measuring the mass of short-life nuclide far from stability. HIAF mainly includes accelerator system, experimental terminal system and supporting facilities.

Approval of HIAF initial design scheme