Primary Research
The chief tool is the heavy ion accelerator facility consisting of UNILAC, the Universal Linear Accelerator (energy of 2 - 11.4 MeV per nucleon), SIS 18, the heavy-ion synchrotron (1 - 2 GeV/u) and ESR, the experimental storage ring (0.5 - 1 GeV/u) and FRS. The UNILAC was commissioned in 1975, the SIS 18 and the ESR were added in 1990 boosting the ion acceleration from 10% of light speed to 90%.
Elements discovered at GSI: meitnerium (1982), hassium (1984), darmstadtium (1994), roentgenium (1994), bohrium (1996), and copernicium (1996).
Read more about this topic: GSI Helmholtz Centre For Heavy Ion Research
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