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The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna is an international research
organization established in accordance with the intergovernmental agreement of eleven
countries in 1956. At the present time, eighteen countries are the JINR Member States and
six countries, having the associated-member status. The JINR basic facility for high-energy
physics research is represented by the 6AGeV Nuclotron which has replaced the old weak
focusing 10GeV proton accelerator Synchrophasotron. The first relativistic nuclear beams
with an energy of 4.AGeV were obtained at the Synchrophasotron in 1971. Since that time
the study of relativistic heavy ion physics problems has been one of the main directions of
the JINR research program. The new flagship of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research is
the NICA/MPD project. The main goal of the project is to start in the coming years
experimental study of hot and dense strongly interacting QCD matter at the new JINR facility.
This goal is proposed to be reached by:
1) development of the existing Nuclotron accelerator facility as a basis for
generation of intense beams over atomic mass range from protons to
uranium and the polarized ions;
2) design and constraction of heavy ion collider (NICA) with maximum
collision energy of sqrt (S_{NN}) =11 GeV and averaged luminosity
10^{27} cm^{-2} s^{-1} and
3) design and construction of multipurpose particle detector (MPD) at
intersecting beams.
Realization of the project will lead to unique conditions for the world community research
activity. The NICA energy regions is of major interest because the highest nuclear (barionic)
density under laboratory conditions can be reached there. Generation of the intense
polarized light nuclear beams aimed at investigation of polarization phenomena at the
Nuclotron is foreseen.
