The superconducting (SC) heavy ion HElmholtz LInear ACcelerator (HELIAC) is under development at GSI in Darmstadt in cooperation with Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM) and Goethe-University Frankfurt (GUF). A novel design is used for the accelerating cavities, namely SC continuous wave (CW) multigap Crossbar H-Mode cavities. For this a dedicated beam dynamics layout the EQUidistant mUltigap Structure (EQUUS) has been carried out a couple of years ago and is under further development. In December 2018 the GSI High Charge State Injector (HLI) delivered heavy ion beam to the already commissioned first of series superconducting RF cavity. Proper 6D-matching to the CH cavity demands sufficient beam characterisation. Slit-grid emittance measurements provided for the transverse phase space determination. By measuring the longitudinal projection of the bunch with a Feschenko Monitor (Beam Shape Monitor), the bunch profile was obtained. With a dedicated algorithm, the full longitudinal phase space at the HLI-exit could be reconstructed from a set of BSM measurements. The basic reconstruction method, all relevant BSM measurements and the resulting phase space reconstruction will be presented.

Once operational, CRYRING@ESR will store and decelerate ions delivered by the experimental storage ring ESR at energies well below those of ESR. In addition to that, CRYRING@ESR has an electron cooler operating with an ultracold electron beam, allowing to provide cooled ion beams for precision experiments. These ions will be delivered to a broad range of experiments presently in preparation; either in-ring or extracted to a dedicated beamline for experiments. An overview and status report of the installation and commissioning of the CRYRING-@ESR storage ring for highly charged ions at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung is presented. The installation of this storage ring started in 2014 and was completing end of 2016, when this publication was written.

Beam Induced Fluorescence (BIF) monitors offer the possibility for non-interceptive beam profile diagnostics and are therefore highly relevant for the future FAIR facility. Several BIF monitors are already in operation at the UNILAC accelerator [1] and are based on Image Intensified CCD (ICCD) cameras. However, recent technological developments of electron multiplying CCD (emCCD) cameras offer an alternative to the ICCD. During the GSI beam time in 2014 profile measurements have been performed both with an ICCD (Proxivison/Basler) [2] and an emCCD (Princeton Instruments ProEM512B) camera [3]. These two cameras have different working principles: the ICCD camera uses electron multiplication within a microchannel plate (MCP) due to the high voltage applied between photocathode and phosphor screen. The emCCD camera achieves signal amplification by avalanche diode-like electronics in the extended portion of the serial readout register [3]. The goal of the experiments was to compare the performance of the two cameras under similar conditions. A typical experimental set-up is shown in Figure 1.