The future experiment CBM @ FAIR aims at mapping out the QCD phase diagram at large baryon densities employing heavy-ion reactions with incident energies from 2 – 45 AGeV. In the startup version, beam energies up to 10AGeV will be available. The talk summarizes the important currently open physics questions in this energy range, e.g. equation-of-state, in-medium modifications of hadrons, equilibration, strange exotica, and the possible experimental strategies to resolve them. Specifically the conceptual design and potential of the CBM experiment will be explained.

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Prof. Norbert Herrmann got his PhD degree from the University of Heidelberg in 1987 and worked in the State University of Newyork for two years. He returned to Heidelberg in 1989 and worked there ever since.

Prof. Herrmann is a distinguished physicist in nuclear physics. His research covers many areas in heavy ion physics, including the radial flow (discovery), the stopping and strangeness production in heavy ion collisions, the pion reduced collisions, the development of advanced MRPC detector and so on. He is the spokesperson of FOPI collaboration. Meanwhile, he is the project leader of TOF in the CBM experiment at the FAIR, a giant research facility being constructed in Germany.  Prof. Herrmann is the referee for many scientific journals like PRL, PR, PL and EPJ, and has become the divisional associate editor of PRL since 2009.