THEME02-0-1065-2007/2014

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02-0-1065-2007/2014

Priority:

Status:

In-progress

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 up to = 11 GeV/n

Leaders:	A.S. Sorin V.D. Kekelidze
Deputies:	G.V. Trubnikov A.D. Kovalenko I.N. Meshkov

Participating Countries, Institutes and International organizations:
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, CERN, Czech Republic, Georgia, Germany, Italy, Japan, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovak Republic, South Africa, Sweden, Ukraine, USA.

Scientific Programme:
Investigation of the mixed phase transition phenomena in strongly interacting nuclear matter at extremely high nuclear densities, study of polarization phenomena in few-body nucleon systems and spin structure of quark matter, nucleon and light nuclei. Development of theoretical models of these processes and theoretical support of the experiments. Development of the Nuclotron accelerator complex, as a base facility for studying of relativistic nuclear collisions in the range of atomic masses A = 1 - 197. Development and construction of the heavy ion collider NICA, multipurpose (NICA/MPD) and spin (NICA/SPD) detectors for the collider experiments with heavy ions. Modernization of the extraction beam lines. Carrying out of experiments with nuclear beams and polarized deuteron beams at the Nuclotron-M.

Expected main results in 2011:

Completion of the works on project physics validation for the NICA/MPD project. Continuation and extension of the "White Paper" - project physics program. Continuation of theoretical sudies of non-perturbative QCD processes, development and tests of the models for the nuclear matter at high temperatures and densities aimed at investigation phases of nuclear matter, dynamics of nuclear collisions at extremely dense baryonic matter and observation this phenomena in P-odd parity and spin asymmetries.
Continuation of works on the Nuclotron modernization in the framework of the Nuclotron-MNICA project: modernization of the accelerator stations, design and construction of the beam injection/extraction systems, commissioning and tests of the new ion source KRION-6T, development and increase of the production rate of the cryogenics complex, full-scale modernization of the injection complex. Development of the system for beam diagnostics. Construction and tests of a new source for polarized beams. Annual dedicated machine development runs at Nuclotron on first priority tasks within running time of 400 hours.
Continuation of the NICA project realization including: 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; construction and tests of the stochastic cooling system prototype at Nuclotron. Development of the infrastructure for the mass-production of new models and prototypes of the superconducting magnets for NICA and FAIR, modernization of the engineering infrastructure.
Completion of the technical design project to place new injector, booster, collider and beam lines of the NICA complex. Development of the engineering infrastructure of the project.
Preparation of the technical project of the MPD solenoid and completion the order for its manufacturing. Prototyping of the detector elements for the first stage of the project. Completion of the MPD Conceptual Design Project and start of the MPD Technical Design Project preparation.
Preparation of the Conceptual Design Project to study nucleon spin structure with SPD. Prototype of the detector elements. Continuation of theoretical studies of the Matveev-Muradyan-Tavkhelidze-Drell-Yan processes, J/ productions processes and other processes in light polarized nuclei collisions.
Nuclotron runs dedicated to physics and machine development within running time of 1200 hous.
Development of the NICA/MPD/SPD computer infrastructure.

List of Activities

Activity or Experiment

Leader

Status

Laboratory

Responsible
person

Leading Researchers
and number of participants

Theoretical investigations, lattice QCD calculations and development of the models for description of prototypes of excited nuclear media under high temperatures and compression, dynamics of nuclear interactions at extreme dense baryon matter, spin and P-odd effects

A.S. Sorin
V.D. Toneev
O.V.Teryaev

Realization

BLTP

D. Blaschke
A.S. Hvorostukhin
A. Parvan
S.V. Molodtsov
O.V. Teryaev + 2 pers.
S.B. Gerasimov + 1 pers.
M.K. Volkov
E.A. Kuraev + 2 pers.

LIT

Yu.L. Kalinovsky + 2 pers.
Zh. Musulmanbekov

DLNP

G.I. Lykasov + 2 pers.

VBLHEP

V.D. Kekelidze
R. Lednicki
Kh.U.Abraamyan + 2 pers.
M.K. Suleymanov
V.N. Zhezher
O.V. Rogachevsky + 2 pers.

Nuclotron-M/NICA: development of the technological systems of the accelerator ring, injection complex and extracted beam channels in the framework of 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 + 8 pers.
V.I. Batin + 10 pers.
G.G. Khodzhibagiyan + 10 pers.
E.D. Donets + 9 pers.
O.I. Brovko + 10 pers.
V.N. Karpinsky + 15 pers.
E.V. Ivanov + 2 pers.
V.A. Mikhaylov + 4 pers.
P.A. Rukoyatkin + 3 pers.
N.I. Lebedev
V.V. Fimushkin + 5 pers.
V.V. Kobets + 2 pers.
A.V. Alfeev + 3 pers.
N.V. Semin + 8 pers.
A.A. Fateev + 5 pers.
N.D. Topilin + 5 pers.

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 + 8 pers.
A.Yu. Starikov + 5 pers.
N.D. Topilin + 5 pers.

Construction of the heavy ion source (KRION-6T), construction of the polarized particle source (PPS) for the NICA complex

E.D. Donets
E.E. Donets
V.V. Fimushkin

Realization

VBLHEP

V.B. Shutov + 8 pers.
V.P. Vadeev + 3 pers.
S.N. Sedykh + 3 pers.

Development and construction of the beam injection/extractin systems, beam transportation channels for NICA elements. Development of the control systems for beam diagnostics

V.I. Volkov
V.A. Mikhaylov

Realization

VBLHEP

V.S. Alexandrov + 2 pers.
A.V. Tuzikov
A.A. Fateev + 3 pers.
S.V. Romanov + 5 pers.
V.M. Zhabitsky
N.I. Lebedev + 6 pers.

Development of the cryogenic systems
for Nuclotron-M/NICA

N.N. Agapov
G.G. Khodzhibagiyan

Projecting
Realization

VBLHEP

V.I. Batin + 8 pers.
H. Malinovsky + 8 pers.

Technical design and construction
of the NICA injection complex

V.V. Kobets
I.N. Meshkov
V.A. Monchinsky
A.O. Sidorin

Realization

VBLHEP

A.V. Butenko + 6 pers.
A.I. Govorov + 6 pers.
N.D. Topilin + 6 pers.

Technical design and construction
of the NICA booster synchrotron and
its technological systems

A.V. Butenko
I.N. Meshkov
V.A. Mikhaylov

Project preparation
Realization

VBLHEP

G.G. Khodzhibagiyan + 8 pers.
A.V. Smirnov + 10 pers.
V.I. Volkov + 10 pers.
N.D. Topilin + 8 pers.
V.N. Karpinsky + 10 pers.

DLNP

S.L. Yakovenko + 5 pers.

Technical design, R&D and construction
of the heavy ion collider NICA with energy = 4÷11 GeV/n 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
A.O. Sidorin
N.V. Semin
N.D. Topilin
V.A. Mikhaylov + 3 pers.
V.I. Volkov + 5 pers.
V.S. Alexandrov + 4 pers.
V.N. Karpinsky + 8 pers.
G.G. Khodzhibagiyan + 3 pers.
O.I. Brovko + 3 pers.

DLNP

S.L. Yakovenko + 5 pers.
S.A. Kostromin

LRB

G.N. Timoshenko + 2 pers.
V.Yu. Shchegolev

10.

Design and construction of the MPD Detector. Optimization of the conceptual design,
preparation of the Technocal Design Project.
R&D and construction of the first-stage detector elements: time-projection chamber, time-of-flight system, electromagnetic calorimeter, zero-degree calorimeter,
internal tracker.

V.D. Kekelidze
A.S. Sorin
V.M. Golovatyuk

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.
V.A. Nikitin
O.V. Rogachevsky + 4 pers.
I.A. Tyapkin + 2 pers.
V.D. Peshekhonov + 4 pers.
Yu.T. Kiryushin + 4 pers.
Yu.K. Potrebenikov + 3 pers.
Yu.A. Murin + 1 pers.
S.V. Bazylev + 5 pers.

DLNP

A.G. Olshevsky
Z.V. Krumshtein + 8 pers.

LIT

V.V. Ivanov + 3 pers.

11.

Design and construction of the
superconducting solenoidal and
magnet yoke

A.S. Vodopyanov

Project preparation
Realization

VBLHEP

A.S. Vodopyanov + 5 pers.
A.A. Efremov
Yu.Yu. Lobanov

12.

Design and creation of the
read-out and slow control
system

S.V. Bazylev

Project preparation
Realization

VBLHEP

S.V. Bazylev
V.M. Slepnev + 7 pers.

13.

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
O.Yu. Shevtchenko

Project preparation
Realization

VBLHEP

A.P. Nagaytsev + 4 pers.
I.A. Savin + 2 pers.
A.V. Nikitin
R. Lednicky
V.N. Pozdnyakov
S.S. Shimansky
V.P. Ladygin + 3 pers.

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

14.

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
Yu.I. Minaev

15.

Technical design and development
of the engineering infrastructure of Nuclotron-M/NICA

I.N. Meshkov
V.D. Kalagin
G.V. Trubnikov
G.D. Shirkov

Projecting
Realization

VBLHEP

N.D. Topilin + 3 pers.
N.V. Semin + 6 pers.

CEO

A.V. Dudarev + 4 pers.

AS&CC Office

S.O. Lukjanov + 2 pers.

16.

Taking experimental data with heavy ion
beams and polarized deuterons at the
Nuclotron-M

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 + 6 pers.
V.P. Ladygin + 8 pers.
A.G. Litvinenko + 4 pers.
E.B. Plekhanov + 1 pers.
Yu.A. Troyan + 4 pers.

Collaboration
Country or international organization	City	Institute or Laboratory
Armenia	Yerevan	YSU
Azerbaijan	Baku	IP ANAS
Bulgaria	Sofia	INRNE BAS
		ISSP BAS
		TU-Sofia
Czech Republic	Liberec	TUL
	Prague	CU
Germany	Darmstadt	GSI
	Frankfurt/Main	Univ.
	Regensburg	UR
	Erlangen	Univ.
	Julich	FZJ
Japan	Nagoya	Nagoya Univ.
Georgia	Tbilisi	IP
Italy	Turin	INFN
Moldova	Chisinau	SUM
		IAP ASM
Poland	Wroclaw	ILTSR PAS
	Otwock-Swierk	IAE
Romania	Bucharest	INOE2000
		IFIN-HH
		INCDIE ICPE-CA
Russia	Moscow	LPI RAS
		ITEP
		Cryogenmash
		Geliymash
		RRC KI
		VNIINM
		IBMP RAS
	Kazan	Compressormach
	Novosibirsk	BINP SB RAS
	Protvino	IHEP
	St. Petersburg	Neva-Magnet
	Troitsk	INR RAS
	Tomsk	NPI TPU
	Fryazino	ISTOK
Slovak Republic	Bratislava	IMS SAS
South Africa	Cape Town	UJ
	Johannesburg	UCT
Sweden	Stockholm	SU
	Uppsala	UU
Ukraine	Kiev	BITP NASU
USA	Batavia, IL	Fermilab
	Stony Brook, NY	SUNY
	Upton, NY	BNL
CERN	Geneva

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