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Development of the JINR Basic Facility for Generation of Intense Heavy Ion and Polarized Nuclear Beams Aimed at Searching for the Mixed Phase of Nuclear Matter and Investigation of Polarization Phenomena at the Collision Energies to up to = 11 GeV

• Completion of the works on project physics validation. Presentation of "White Paper" - project physics program. Continuation of theoretical sudies of non-perturbative QCD processes, creation and test of the models for description of nuclear matter at high temperatures and densities aimed at investigation of possible states of nuclear matter in phase space and nuclear collisions dynamics at extremely dense baryonic matter.
  
  
• Completion of main works on the Nuclotron modernization in the frames of the Nuclotron-M project: vacuum conditions improvement, optimization of the ion source for generation of Au ⁵²⁺ and Xe ⁴⁴⁺ ions, commissioning of the new ion source KRION-6T, full-scale modernization of the cryogenics and injection complex. Development of the beam diagnostics. Development of the new source of polarized particles. Annual dedicated machine development runs at Nuclotron on first priority tasks within running time of 400 hours.
  
  
• Continuation of the NICA project realization including: completion of the technical design stage and start of the construction of new linear injector (z/A 0.14) and booster synchrotron; R&D related to the collider magnetic system and development of the beam cooling systems; start of the design and construction of the stochastic cooling system prototype at Nuclotron, design and construction of new models and prototypes of the superconducting magnets with maximum field up to 4.5 T for NICA and FAIR, modernization of the engineering infrastructure.
  
  
• Further development of the software environment MPD-ROOT. Simulation of the heavy ion collisions at various conditions. Developed and optimization of the reconstruction programs for events of various topologies. Detector optimization for the high efficiency reconstruction of events including a region of high pseudorapidity. Design and construction of detector prototype elements for IT, PTC, STRAW, TOF and ECAL in the framework of R&D activity. Development of the project management system.
  
  
• Continuation of the physics and methodical beam experiments at the Nuclotron for the first priority tasks within running time up to 1200 hours.
  
  
• Simulation of the polarized proton and deuteron collisions. Finalization of the Monte-Carlo generator development for Drell-Yan, J/ productions and other inclusive processes in collisions of the polarized light nucleons. Final specification of the SPD characteristics for effective realization of the spin physics program at NICA, preparation of the Letter of Intent.
  
  
• Development of computer infrastructure for NICA complex.
  
  

List of Activities
	Activity or Experiment	Leader
	Laboratory	Responsible       person	Leading Researchers and number of participants
1.	Theoretical investigations, development of the models for description of the properties of excited nuclear media under high temperatures and compression, dynamics of nuclear interactions at extreme dense baryon matter	A.N. Sissakian A.S. Sorin V.D. Toneev	Realization
	BLTP		D. Blaschke V.V. Skokov A.S. Hvorostukhin A. Parvan S.V. Molodtsov O.V. Teryaev + 1 pers. S.B. Gerasimov + 1 pers. M.K. Volkov
	LIT		Yu.L. Kalinovsky + 2 pers. Zh. Musulmanbekov
	DLNP		G.I. Lykasov + 2 pers. T.M. Solovieva
	VBLHEP		M.K. Suleimanov V.N. Zhezher
2.	Nuclotron-M/NICA: development of the technological systems of the ring, injection complex and extracted beam channels in accordance with the NICA project	A.V. Butenko V.I. Volkov A.D. Kovalenko G.V. Trubnikov I.N. Meshkov	Realization
	VBLHEP		N.N. Agapov A.O. Sidorin
			A.I. Govorov + 10 pers. V.I. Batin + 16 pers. G.G. Khodzhibagiyan + 10 pers. E.D. Donets + 9 pers. O.I. Brovko + 10 pers. V.N. Karpinsky + 15 pers. E.V. Ivanov + 4 pers. V.A. Mikhaylov + 6 pers. P.A. Rukoyatkin + 5 pers. V.V. Fimushkin + 5 pers. V.V. Kobets + 5 pers. A.V. Alfeev N.V. Semin + 8 pers. A.I. Sidorov + 5 pers. A.M. Taratin + 4 pers. A.V. Shabunov + 5 pers.
3.	R&D work, construction of the prototypes and full-scale superconducting magnets for NICA booster and collider	A.D. Kovalenko G.G. Khodzhibagiyan	R&D Realization
	VBLHEP		A.V. Butenko + 10 pers. V.N. Karpinsky + 6 pers. N.N. Agapov + 10 pers. A.Yu. Starikov + 5 pers. A.V. Shabunov + 5 pers.
4.	Construction of the heavy ion source (KRION-6T), construction of the polarized particle source (PPS) for the NICA complex	E.D. Donets V.V. Fimushkin	Realization
	VBLHEP		E.E. Donets + 8 pers. V.P. Vadeev + 3 pers. S.N. Sedykh + 3 pers. A.I. Sidorov + 3 pers.
5.	Development and construction of the beam injection/extractin systems, beam transportation channels for NICA elements. Development of the control systams and beam diagnostics	V.I. Volkov V.A. Mikhaylov I.N. Meshkov	Realization
	VBLHEP		V.S. Alexandrov + 4 pers. A.I. Sidorov + 5 pers. A.A. Fateev S.V. Romanov + 5 pers. V.M. Zhabitsky N.I. Lebedev + 6 pers.
6.	Development of the cryogenic systems for Nuclotron-M/NICA	N.N. Agapov	Projecting Realization
	VBLHEP		V.I. Batin + 8 pers. H. Malinovsky + 8 pers.
7.	Technical design and construction of the NICA injection complex	V.V. Kobets V.A. Monchinsky A.O. Sidorin	Realization
	VBLHEP		I.N. Meshkov A.I. Govorov + 10 pers. N.D. Topilin + 10 pers.
8.	Technical design and construction of the NICA booster synchrotron and its technological systems	I.N. Meshkov V.A. Mikhaylov	Project preparation Realization
	VBLHEP		A.O. Sidorin A.V. Butenko + 10 pers. V.I. Volkov + 10 pers. N.D. Topilin + 10 pers.
	DLNP		S.L. Yuakovenko + 5 pers.
9.	Technical design, R&D, construction work in the frame of realization of the heavy ion collider NICA with energy = 411 GeV and average luminosity 1 ·10 27cm -2· s -1 on the base of Nuclotron-M	A.D. Kovalenko I.N. Meshkov A.O. Sidorin G.V. Trubnikov	Project preparation Realization
	VBLHEP		N.N. Agapov A.V. Butenko A.V. Eliseev V.D. Kalagin O.S. Kozlov V.A. Monchinsky N.V. Semin N.D. Topilin V.A. Mikhaylov + 3 pers. E.D. Donets + 3 pers. V.I. Volkov + 5 pers. V.S. Alexandrov + 4 pers. V.N. Karpinsky + 8 pers. G.G. Hodzhibagiyan + 5 pers. I.B. Issinsky O.I. Brovko + 2 pers.
	DLNP		S.L. Yakovenko + 5 pers.
	LRB		G.N. Timoshenko + 2 pers.
10.	Simulation of the studied processes and its detection, R&D works, MPD Conceptual Design Report preparation, construction of the MPD elements, its mounting and putting in operation stage by stage	V.D. Kekelidze V.A. Nikitin	Project preparation Realization
	VBLHEP		V.M. Golovatyuk + 4 pers. H.U. Abraamyan + 2 pers.
			M.G. Kadykov + 4 pers. Yu.V. Zanevsky + 3 pers. A.G. Litvinenko + 3 pers. E.A. Matyushevsky + 2 pers. O.V. Rogachevsky + 4 pers. I.A.Tyapkin + 2 pers. V.V. Borisov + 3 pers. V.D. Peshekhonov + 4 pers. Yu.T. Kiryushin + 4 pers. Yu.K. Potrebenikov + 3 pers. R.Yu. Zulkarneev + 1 pers. Yu.A. Murin + 3 pers.
	LIT		V.V. Ivanov + 3 pers.
	DLNP		A.G. Olshevsky Z.V. Krumshtein + 8 pers.
11.	Preparation of the physical program and SPD detector project for studying of the spin effects at NICA complex. R&D works and SPD elements construction	A.D. Kovalenko A.P. Nagaytsev I.A. Savin A.N. Sissakian O.Yu. Shevtchenko	Project preparation Realization
	VBLHEP		A.P. Nagaytsev + 4 pers. I.A. Savin + 2 pers. A.V. Nikitin R. Lednitski V.N. Pozdnyakov
	DLNP		A.G. Olshevsky A.V. Kulikov + 3 pers. Z.V. Krumshtein O.N. Ivanov G. Macharashvili
	LIT		V.V. Palchik
	BLTP		A.V. Efremov O.V. Teryaev
12.	Development of computer infrastructure for NICA complex	Yu.K. Potrebenikov O.V. Rogachevsky	Realization
	VBLHEP		B.G. Schinov + 3 pers. D.T. Madigozhin + 3 pers. D.V. Peshekhonov S.V. Khabarov
13.	Development of the engineering infrastructure of Nuclotron-M/NICA	V.D. Kalagin G.V. Trubnikov G.D. Shirkov	Projecting Realization
	VBLHEP		N.V. Semin + 6 pers. A.V. Dudarev + 4 pers.
14.	Obtaining of the experimental data at the Nuclotron heavy ion beams and at the polarized deuteron beam construction	A.I. Malakhov E.A. Strokovsky	Realization
	VBLHEP		S.V. Afanasiev + 5 pers. A.A. Baldin + 8 pers. V.M. Golovatyuk + 5 pers. Yu.V. Zanevsky + 5 pers. V.A. Krasnov V.P. Ladygin + 8 pers. A.G. Litvinenko + 4 pers. E.B. Plekhanov + 1 pers. Yu.A. Troyan + 4 pers.

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