Meeting of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the FAIR-CZ Project at Villa Lanna

15. 12. 2025

On Friday, 28 November 2025, a meeting of the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) of the FAIR-CZ project, coordinated by the Nuclear Physics Institute (NPI), took place at Villa Lanna.

The main topic of this year’s meeting was the evaluation of the FAIR-CZ infrastructure for the period 2020–2024. The resulting documents will be submitted to the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, which will assess all major Czech research infrastructures and decide on their funding for the period 2027–2032.

The meeting opened with a presentation by Andrej Kugler (DHIP NPI), who reported that the Czech in-kind contributions to the FAIR project have already exceeded the level set in the accession agreement. These contributions consist of several detector components: the ECAL photon calorimeter for the HADES experiment; PbWO₄ crystals developed in collaboration with the CRYTUR company, which supplied several hundred crystals for photon detection for the PANDA research programme; detector modules for the GADAST charged-particle detector for the NUSTAR project; a thin-walled carbon-fibre ion conducter developed with the company COMPOTECH; and platforms for installing detectors in the CBM hall, where a BIOMAT collaboration device for irradiating cells with SIS100 beams, simulating astronaut exposure, is also planned to be placed.

In its recommendations for the future direction of the infrastructure, the SAC said that in the coming years it will be essential to make the most effective scientific use of the detectors already installed, with the aim of achieving top-level internationally competitive results.

Meeting of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the FAIR-CZ Project at Villa Lanna

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