Status of the Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility (NICA)

by Dr Grigori Troubnikov (JINR Dubna)

Wednesday 18 Jun 2014, 14:00 → 16:00 Europe/Berlin

DESY (Sem R 4b)

"Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility (NICA) is the new accelerator complex being constructed in Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR, Dubna).
General goal of the project is to provide colliding beams for experimental studies of both hot and dense strongly interacting baryonic matter and spin physics (in collisions of polarized protons and deuterons).
The first program requires providing of heavy ion collisions in the energy (center of mass) range of /E////=/ 4-11 GeV at average luminosity of /L/ = 1×10^27  cm^- ^2 s^- ^1 for ^197 Au^79 ^+ nuclei.
The polarized beams mode is proposed to be used in energy (center of mass) range of
E = 12-27 GeV (protons) at luminosity of /L/ ³ 1×10^3 ^1 cm^- ^2 ×s^--1 .
The key issue of the project is low energy collider machine with high intense heavy ion beams, that leads to strong space charge and beam-beam effects, and requires application of beam cooling methods: stochastic and electron ones .
The facility scheme and characteristics in heavy ion operation mode, status and plans of the project development will be presented."
 
 

Slides Trubnikov_NICA_Hamburg_2014-18-06-s.pptx