Speaker
Prof.
vladimir kekelidze
(Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)
Description
Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility (the NICA project) is under construction at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR, Dubna). The corresponding experimental program includes a study of hot and dense strongly interacting matter in heavy ion collisions (up to gold) in the energy range up to√ s_NN = 11 GeV and an investigation of the nucleon spin structure in collisions of polarized protons and deuterons at the energy up to √ s = 27 GeV. Two experiments are in preparation to study heavy ion collisions, the MPD detector at the collider, and experiment BM@N with extracted beams. The nucleon spin structure will be studied with the SPD detector at the collider. Designed average luminosity of collider is 10E27 cm-2 s-1 for Au(79+) and 10E32 for polarized protons. The proposed experimental program allows one to search for manifestations of the phase transitions and critical phenomena and shed light on the nucleon spin structure dynamics.
Primary author
Prof.
vladimir kekelidze
(Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)
