Project Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility at JINR
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Moscow oblast (Russian Federation)
The project of Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility (NICA) that is under development at JINR (Dubna) is presented. The general goals of the project are experimental studies of both hot and dense baryonic matter and spin physics (in collisions of polarized protons and deuterons). The first program requires providing of heavy ion collisions in the energy range of √(s{sub NN}) = 4–11 Gev at average luminosity of L = 1 × 10{sup 27} cm{sup −2} s{sup −1} for {sup 197}Au{sup 79+} nuclei. The polarized beams mode is proposed to be used in energy range of √(s{sub NN}) = 12–27 Gev (protons at luminosity of L ≥ 1 × 10{sup 30} cm{sup −2} s{sup −1}. The report contains description of the facility scheme and its characteristics in heavy ion operation mode. The Collider will be equipped with two detectors—MultiPurpose Detector (MPD), which is in an active stage of construction, and Spin Physics Detector (SPD) that is in the stage of conceptual design. Fixed target experiment “Baryonic matter at Nuclotron” (BM@N) will be performed in very beginning of the project. The wide program of applied researches at NICA facility is being developed as well.
- OSTI ID:
- 22981764
- Journal Information:
- Physics of Particles and Nuclei, Vol. 48, Issue 5; Other Information: Copyright (c) 2017 Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1063-7796
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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