THEME03-1-0979-92/2001

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03-1-0979-92/2001

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Approved for completion
in 2001

Development of the Nuclotron Accelerator Complex

Leaders:

A.M. Baldin
A. Kovalenko
A. Malakhov

Scientific Programme:

Operation of the Nuclotron, internal and external target experiments. Development of the Nuclotron beam extraction system. Upgrade of the Nuclotron cryogenic system. Development of superconducting magnets for heavy-ion synchrotrons and beam transport channels. Increase of the beam intensity and extension of available nuclear beams. Development of the ion sources: laser, electron beam ionization scanner (CRION), polarized deuterons (Polaris). Upgrade of linac LU-20 (Z/A

0.28). Technical design and preparations for the booster ring construction. Development of the beam transport system.

Expected main results in 2001:

Providing of the Nuclotron operation during 1400 hours for tuning the accelerator regimes, beam extraction and physics experiments using internal targets and extracted beams. Improvement of beam transportation from the Nuclotron ring to hall No 205. Tests of the beam extraction and deflection devices with bend crystals at the Nuclotron, development of the crystal optical technologies. Improvement of the beam slow extraction system efficiency.
Providing of physics experiments with beams of relativistic polarized particles, development of the polarized deuteron source "Polaris". Development of a technical proposal on charge-exchange injection of polarized deuterons into the Nuclotron.
Research of the injector LU-20 regime for acceleration of ions with z/A = 0.28. Stand tests of the new laser-driven ion source. Preparation of the electron beam ion source "CRION" for operation at the LU-20.
Development of the control system, beam diagnostics, parameter monitoring of the Nuclotron systems.
Improvement of the power supplies. Increasing of operational reliability of the quench detection and energy dump systems of the Nuclotron.
Increasing of the efficiency and operational reliability of the Nuclotron cryogenic supply. Work on the installation of reserve helium compressor "KASKAD"
Technical proposal for the booster construction based on the Nuclotron technologies.
Development of the superconducting magnet technology and design concepts.

List of Activities
	Activity or project	Spokespersons	Status
1.	Nuclotron	A. Kovalenko	Operation
2.	New Beams and Beam Extraction System	A. Kovalenko	Realization
3.	Crystalloptics	A. Taratin	Realization
4.	Booster Ring	I. Issinsky	Technical proposal
5.	Ion Linac	V. Monchinsky	Realization
6.	Beam Transport	V. Volkov	Operation
7.	Cryogenic System	N. Agapov	Operation
8.	Polarization Technologies	Yu. Pilipenko	Realization

Participating Institutes and Organizations

Bulgaria	INRNE, ISSP (Sofia)
Finland	UT (Turku)
Germany	FAU (Nuremberg), JWGU (Frankfurt/M) GSI (Darmstadt)
Japan	Nagoya Univ. (Nagoya)
JINR	LIT, DRRR
Kazakhstan	PTI (Almaty)
Poland	ILTSR (Wroclaw)
Romania	INOE2000 (Bucharest)
Russia	SPJ "Kriogenmash", "Geliimash" MRTI, SRC-RRC KI, LPI SRC-RINM, IPP, SRC-IBMP (Moscow) INR (Troitsk), SRC-IHEP (Protvino)
Slovak Republic	IMS (Bratislava)
Sweden	Univ. (Stockholm)
USA	BNL (Upton), Fermilab (Batavia)

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