Name: NICA Machine Advisory Committee
Start: 2018-06-07T07:10:00+03:00
End: 2018-06-08T19:05:00+03:00
Location: VBLHEP JINR

NICA Machine Advisory Committee

from Thursday 7 June 2018 (07:10) to Friday 8 June 2018 (19:05)

Monday 4 June 2018
Tuesday 5 June 2018
Wednesday 6 June 2018
Thursday 7 June 2018

08:00

08:00 - 08:20
Room: NICA Hall

08:30

08:30 - 09:00
Room: NICA Hall
09:00
09:00 - 10:00
Room: NICA Hall
Contributions

09:00 Introduction: NICA status and tasks, new results, session content - Igor Meshkov (JINR)

09:30 Nuclotron: results of the 55<sup>th</sup> run, tasks and plans of the Nuclotron upgrade for BM@N and MPD experiments - Andrey Butenko (VBLHEP JINR)
10:00 Coffe break
Coffe break
10:00 - 10:20
Room: NICA Hall
10:20 Continue
Continue
10:20 - 11:55
Room: NICA Hall
Contributions

10:20 SC magnets: status of fabrication and test results - Hamlet Khodzhibagiyan (VBLHEP JINR)

10:50 NICA Booster: status of mounting preparation - Artem Galimov (VBLHEP JINR)

11:20 Beam transfer channels, injection and extraction systems — status of construction - Aleksey Tuzikov (VBLHEP JINR)
11:55 Lunch break
Lunch break
11:55 - 12:35
Room: NICA Hall
12:35
12:35 - 14:30
Room: NICA Hall
Contributions

12:35 NICA Collider: optics overview, nonlinearities and dynamic aperture, choice of working points - Oleg Kozlov (VBLHEP JINR) Sergey Kostromin (VBLHEP JINR)

13:10 Beam storage and formation, acceleration/deceleration - Evgeny Syresin (VBLHEP JINR)

13:45 Space charge effects in the Collider, impedances - Angrei Kolomiets (ITEP) Pavel Zenkevich (ITEP)

14:10 Electron clouds in NICA: new results - Alexandr Philippov (VBLHEP JINR)
14:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
14:30 - 14:50
Room: NICA Hall
14:50 Continue
Continue
14:50 - 16:55
Room: NICA Hall
Contributions

14:50 Electron coolers for NICA Booster and Collider - Vladimir Reva (BINP)

15:25 Stochastic cooling system: start-up and project modes - Anatoly Sidorin (VBLHEP JINR)

15:50 Summary of the day, discussion
16:55

16:55 - 17:10
Room: NICA Hall

18:00

18:00 - 20:00
Friday 8 June 2018

07:45

07:45 - 08:00
Room: NICA Hall
08:10
08:10 - 10:20
Room: NICA Hall
Contributions

08:10 Stochastic cooling for NICA - Valeri Lebedev (FNAL)

08:45 Bunched beam stochastic cooling simulation using Fokker-Planck equation - Takeshi Katayama (Nihon University)

09:05 Beam diagnostics at the NICA — progress and tasks - Evgeny Gorbachev (VBLHEP JINR)

09:30 NICA control system — structure and parameters - Evgeny Gorbachev (VBLHEP JINR)

09:55 NICA complex infrastructure — status and progress - Yulya Mitrofanova (VBLHEP JINR)
10:20 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:20 - 10:40
Room: NICA Hall
10:40
10:40 - 11:35
Room: NICA Hall
Contributions

10:40 Status of the MPD and the BM@N experiments - Vyacheslav Golovatyuk (VBLHEP JINR)

11:05 Machine — Detector Interface - Alexandr Smirnov (VBLHEP JINR) Vyacheslav Golavatyuk (VBLHEP JINR)
11:35

11:35 - 12:30
Room: NICA Hall

12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 13:10
Room: NICA Hall

13:10

13:10 - 14:30
Room: NICA Hall
14:30
14:30 - 16:10
Room: NICA Hall
Contributions

14:30 General discussion of the status and problems of the NICA accelerator complex project (requests to MAC, etc.) — continuation

15:30 Closed session: discussion and formulation of the MAC resolution

15:50 Presentation of the MAC resolution. Proposal of the next session

16:00 Closing of the MAC session
16:10 Departure to Hotel "Dubna", Sheremetyevo airport, Moscow, and so on
Departure to Hotel "Dubna", Sheremetyevo airport, Moscow, and so on
16:10 - 16:30
Room: NICA Hall