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URLhttps://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2023-MOPL043
TitleNICA ion collider and its acceleration complex
Authors
  • V. Lebedev, O. Brovko, A. Butenko, E. Donets, A. Galimov, E. Gorbachev, V. Kekelidze, H. Khodzhibagiyan, S. Kostromin, I. Meshkov, M. Shandov, V. Smirnov, E. Syresin, G. Trubnikov, A. Tuzikov
    Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • A. Sidorin
    JINR
AbstractThe Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility (NICA) is under construction at JINR. The NICA project goal is to provide colliding beams for studies of hot and dense strongly interacting baryonic matter and spin physics. The NICA Collider includes two rings with 503 m circumference each and the injection complex. For the heavy ion mode, the injection complex consists of following accelerators: 3.2 MeV/u linac (HILAC), 600 MeV/u (A/Z=6) superconducting booster synchrotron (Booster) and main superconducting synchrotron (Nuclotron) with kinetic energy up to 3.9 GeV/u (A/Z=2.5). The injection complex has been under commissioning for more than 2 years. The latest half-year Run ended in February of 2023. It was devoted to preparations for the collider operation and also delivered slowly extracted 3.9 GeV/u xenon beam to the BM&N experiment. Now the injection complex is shut down for its further development and an assembly of the collider. Cryogenic tests of the collider magnetic structure are expected at the end of 2023. The next run of the injection complex is aimed at an increase of ion flux by more than an order of magnitude and will be started at 2024.
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Conference14th International Particle Accelerator Conference
Series
LocationVenice, Italy
Date07-12 May 2023
PublisherJACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland
Editorial BoardRalph Assmann - Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY Peter McIntosh - Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC/DL/ASTeC) Giovanni Bisoffi - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN/LNL) Alessandro Fabris - Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A. Ivan Andrian - Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A. Giulia Vinicola - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN/LNF)
Online ISBN978-3-95450-231-8
Online ISSN2673-5490
Received02 May 2023
Revised10 May 2023
Accepted16 June 2023
Issued26 September 2023
DOI10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2023-MOPL043
Pages634-637