Novel physics opportunities at the HESR-Collider with PANDA at FAIR

Exciting new scientific opportunities are presented for the PANDA detector at the High Energy Storage Ring in the redefined p̅p(A) collider mode, HESR-C, at the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) in Europe. The high luminosity, L ∼ 10^31 cm^-2 s^-1, and a wide range of intermediate and high energies, √(s_NN) up to 30 GeV for p̅p(A) collisions will allow to explore a wide range of exciting topics in QCD, including the study of the production of excited open charm and bottom states, nuclear bound states containing heavy (anti)quarks, the interplay of hard and soft physics in the dilepton production, and the exploration of the regime where gluons – but not quarks – experience strong interaction.