SCIENCE BRINGS NATIONS TOGETHER NICA Machine Advisory Committee

22 May 2017, 08:30 → 23 May 2017, 17:00 Europe/Moscow

Boris Sharkov (JINR), Viktor Matveev (JINR), Vladimir Kekelidze (VBLHEP JINR)

Photos MAC_photos_2017.zip

Photos_Strabag Strabag.zip

Slides mac_22_23_05_17.zip

Monday 22 May

08:30 → 09:00 Opening

Conveners: Boris Sharkov (JINR), Viktor Matveev (JINR), Vladimir Kekelidze (VBLHEP JINR)

09:00 → 12:40 Morning session

09:00 Three stages of the NICA project: status and tasks

Speaker: Igor Meshkov (JINR)

Slides

• 17May23_Requests_to_The_MAC.pptx
• Chronology_of_MACs.pptx
• Meshkov_NICA_Status.pptx

09:25 Injection complex status

Speaker: Anrdey Martynov (VBLHEP JINR)

Slides Martynov_NICA_injection_complex_status_MAC17.pptx

09:50 Nuclotron: results of the 52^nd, 53^rd and 54^th runs

Speaker: Anatoly Sidorin (VBLHEP JINR)

Slides Sidorin_Nuclotron_MAC_05_17.ppt

10:20 Coffee break

10:40 SC magnets: fabrication and test

Speaker: Hamlet Khodzhibagiyan (VBLHEP JINR)

Slides Khodzhibagiyan_SC_mag.pdf

11:05 Vacuum systems of the NICA

Speaker: Alexandr Smirnov (VBLHEP JINR)

Slides MAC'17_Smirnov.pptx

11:35 Booster assembling. Strategy and plans

Speaker: Artem Galimov (VBLHEP JINR)

Slides Galimov_MAC_2017_v.4-20170510.pptx

12:00 Lunch break

12:40 → 16:35 Afternoon session: NICA Collider

12:40 Optimization of the Collider rings' optics

Speaker: Oleg Kozlov (VBLHEP JINR)

Slides MAC2017_ColliderOptics.pptx

13:10 Space charge effects in the Collider

Speakers: Alexandr Bolshakov (ITEP), Alexandr Kolomiets (ITEP), Pavel Zenkevich (ITEP)

Slides ColeffNICA17.pptx

13:50 Ion storage and bunch formation in the Collider rings

Speaker: Evgeny Syresin (VBLHEP JINR)

Slides Storage_of_ion_beams_in_collider-2.pptx

14:15 Electron clouds in NICA

Speaker: Alexandr Philippov (VBLHEP JINR)

Slides Philippov_MAC_22_05_17.pptx

14:40 Coffee break

15:00 Beam transfer channels, injection and extraction systems

Speaker: Alexey Tuzikov (VBLHEP JINR)

Slides Tuzikov_Transfers_4a.pptx

15:40 NICA control system

Speakers: Evgeny Gorbachev (VBLHEP JINR), Vyacheslav Slepnev (VBLHEP JINR)

Slides Gorbachev-ControlSystem_MAС2017-ver2.pptx

16:10 Beam diagnostics at the NICA

Speakers: Evgeny Gorbachev (VBLHEP JINR), Valery Volkov (VBLHEP JINR)

Slides Gorbachev-BeamDiagnostics_MAC2017-ver2.pptx

16:35 → 17:05 Summary of the day, discussion

17:05 → 20:00 Dinner

Tuesday 23 May

08:30 → 12:25 Morning session

08:30 Status of the MPD and the BM@N experiment

Speaker: Dr Viacheslav Golovatyuk (JINR)

Slides Status_of_the_MPD_Golovatyuk_22_05_2017.ppt

08:55 Machine-Detector interface

Speaker: Dr Viacheslav Golovatyuk (JINR)

Slides MPD_NICA_Interface_23_05_2017_fff.ppt

09:20 Questions and discussion of the presented topics of MDI

09:40 Electron cooler for NICA Collider

Speaker: Vasily Parkhomchuk (BINP)

Slides Electron_cooler_for_NICA_Collider.pptx

10:10 Coffee break

10:30 Stochastic cooling system: start-up and project modes

Speaker: Ivan Gorelyshev (VBLHEP JINR)

Slides Gorelyshev_Stochastic_MAC17.pdf Gorelyshev_Stochastic_MAC17.pptx

10:55 Radiation conditions at the NICA

Speaker: Gennady Timoshenko (LRB JINR)

Slides MAC_2017_Timoshenko_(1).pptx

11:20 NICA complex infrastructure

Speaker: Yulia Mitrofanova (VBLHEP JINR)

Slides mac_mitrofanova.ppt

11:45 Lunch break

12:25 → 15:55 Afternoon session

12:25 Excursion to Collider construction site, Booster and Nuclotron

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

13:25 Polarized particle beams at NICA complex: first proposal

Speaker: Alexandr Kovalenko (VBLHEP JINR)

Slides Kovalenko_MAC_May_23_2017.pdf

13:55 Discussion of the proposal

Speakers: Sergey Nikitin (BINP), Yuri Shatunov (BINP)

Slides 12Sep26_Collider_in_pp_Mode.doc Dubna_2017_spin_notes.ppt

14:35 Coffee break

14:55 Free discussion of the status and problems of the NICA accelerator complex project

Requests to MAC, etc.

15:55 → 16:40 Closed session: discussion and formulation of the MAC resolution

16:40 → 17:00 Closing of the MAC