SCIENCE BRINGS NATIONS TOGETHER NICA Machine Advisory Committee

7 Jun 2018, 07:10 → 8 Jun 2018, 19:05 Europe/Moscow

NICA Hall (VBLHEP JINR)

Steck Markus (GSI), Viktor Matveev (JINR), Vladimir Kekelidze (VBLHEP JINR)

document 18Jun07_Charge_to_the_MAC.doc

pictures photos.zip

Thursday, 7 June

Departure from Hotel "Dubna"

Opening

M. Steck, V. Matveev, B. Sharkov, V. Kekelidze

Morning session I

1 Introduction: NICA status and tasks, new results, session content

Speaker: Igor Meshkov (JINR)

Slides 1_18Jun07_Meshkov.pptx

2 Nuclotron: results of the 55^th run, tasks and plans of the Nuclotron upgrade for BM@N and MPD experiments

Speaker: Andrey Butenko (VBLHEP JINR)

Slides 2_18Jun07_Butenko.pptx

10:00 Coffe break

Morning session I: Continue

3 SC magnets: status of fabrication and test results

Speaker: Hamlet Khodzhibagiyan (VBLHEP JINR)

Slides 3_18Jun07_Khodzhibagiyan.pdf

4 NICA Booster: status of mounting preparation

Speaker: Artem Galimov (VBLHEP JINR)

Slides 4_18Jun07_Galimov.pptx

5 Beam transfer channels, injection and extraction systems — status of construction

Speaker: Aleksey Tuzikov (VBLHEP JINR)

Slides 5_18Jun07_Tuzikov.pptx

11:55 Lunch break

Afternoon session I ― NICA Collider

6 NICA Collider: optics overview, nonlinearities and dynamic aperture, choice of working points

Speakers: Oleg Kozlov (VBLHEP JINR), Sergey Kostromin (VBLHEP JINR)

Slides 6_18Jun07_Kostromin.pptx

7 Beam storage and formation, acceleration/deceleration

Speaker: Evgeny Syresin (VBLHEP JINR)

Slides 7_18Jun07_Syresin.pptx

8 Space charge effects in the Collider, impedances

Speakers: Angrei Kolomiets (ITEP), Pavel Zenkevich (ITEP)

Slides 8_18Jun07_Zenkevich.pptx

9 Electron clouds in NICA: new results

Speaker: Alexandr Philippov (VBLHEP JINR)

Slides 9_18Jun07_Philippov.pdf

14:30 Coffee break

Afternoon session I ― NICA Collider: Continue

10 Electron coolers for NICA Booster and Collider

Speaker: Vladimir Reva (BINP)

Slides 18Jun07_Reva.pdf

11 Stochastic cooling system: start-up and project modes

Speaker: Anatoly Sidorin (VBLHEP JINR)

document SC_TDR_eng.doc

Slides 11_18Jun07_Sidorin.ppt

12 Summary of the day, discussion

Departure to Hotel "Dubna"

Dinner

Friday, 8 June

Departure from Hotel "Dubna"

Morning session II ― NICA instrumentation and infrastructure

13 Stochastic cooling for NICA

Speaker: Valeri Lebedev (FNAL)

document 18Jun08_NICA_StochasticCooling2018.xmcd

Slides 18Jun08_StochasticCoolingForNICA2018.pdf

14 Bunched beam stochastic cooling simulation using Fokker-Planck equation

Speaker: Takeshi Katayama (Nihon University)

Slides 13_18Jun08_Katayama.pdf

15 Beam diagnostics at the NICA — progress and tasks

Speaker: Evgeny Gorbachev (VBLHEP JINR)

Slides 13_18Jun08_Gorbachev.pptx

16 NICA control system — structure and parameters

Speaker: Evgeny Gorbachev (VBLHEP JINR)

Slides 14_18Jun08_Gorbachev.pptx

17 NICA complex infrastructure — status and progress

Speaker: Yulya Mitrofanova (VBLHEP JINR)

Slides 15_18Jun08_Mitrofanova.ppt

10:20 Coffee break

Morning session III ― NICA Detectors

18 Status of the MPD and the BM@N experiments

Speaker: Vyacheslav Golovatyuk (VBLHEP JINR)

Slides MAC_Golovatyuk_08_06_2018.pptx

19 Machine — Detector Interface

Speakers: Alexandr Smirnov (VBLHEP JINR), Vyacheslav Golavatyuk (VBLHEP JINR)

Slides 17_18Jun08_Smirnov.pptx

General discussion of the status and problems of the NICA accelerator complex project (requests to MAC, etc.)

12:30 Lunch break

Excursion to the Collider construction site, Booster and Nuclotron

Conveners: Andrey Butenko (VBLHEP JINR), Andrey Dudarev (JINR)

Afternoon session — Closed session and organizing issues

20 General discussion of the status and problems of the NICA accelerator complex project (requests to MAC, etc.) — continuation

15:10 Coffee break

21 Closed session: discussion and formulation of the MAC resolution

22 Presentation of the MAC resolution. Proposal of the next session

23 Closing of the MAC session

16:10 Departure to Hotel "Dubna", Sheremetyevo airport, Moscow, and so on