SCIENCE BRINGS NATIONS TOGETHER
International Workshop “SPD at NICA-2019”

Europe/Moscow
Description
The workshop is next in the series of meetings on problems of  polarization phenomena in Particle and Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics related to the particles' spin and nucleon spin structure. This year it is devoted to the Spin Physics Detector (SPD) project at NICA. One of the main goals  of the workshop is to start building an international collaboration to design and build the SPD and perform experiments with it.
Compact timetable
Participants
  • Adel Terkulov
  • Aierke Rymbekova
  • Aleaxander Chepurnov
  • Aleksey Shumkov
  • Aleksey Tishevskiy
  • Alexander Akindinov
  • Alexander Borissov
  • Alexander Isupov
  • Alexander Jerusalimov
  • Alexander Kovalenko
  • Alexander Kubankin
  • Alexander Lobko
  • Alexander Nagaytsev
  • Alexander Skurikhin
  • Alexander Solin
  • Alexander Verkheev
  • Alexandr Chumakov
  • Alexandr Gribowsky
  • Alexey Guskov
  • Alexey Nikolaev
  • Alexey Stavinskiy
  • Aliaksandr Solin
  • Aliaksei Piskun
  • Anatoliy Kondratenko
  • Anatoly Efremov
  • Anatoly Kulikov
  • Anatoly L'vov
  • Angelo Maggiora
  • Anna Skachkova
  • Anton Baldin
  • Anton Chornyi
  • Artem Ivanov
  • Artem Semak
  • Artur Tkachenko
  • Bogdan Topko
  • Daina Leyva Pernía
  • Daniele Panzieri
  • Dieter Mueller
  • Egle Tomasi-Gustafsson
  • Ekaterina Mosolova
  • Ekaterina Streletskaya
  • Elena Kokoulina
  • Elena Zemlyanichkina
  • Elina Baldina
  • Evgeny Ladygin
  • Fernando Guzman
  • Gennady ALEXEEV
  • Georgy Golovanov
  • Georgy Kekelidze
  • Gleb Meshcheryakov
  • Grzegorz Pastuszak
  • Igor Alekseev
  • Igor Denisenko
  • Igor Konorov
  • Ivan Bredikhin
  • Ivan Moshkovsky
  • José Alejandro Rubiera Gimeno
  • Konstantin Gritsay
  • Leonid Afanasyev
  • Leonid Vertogradov
  • Levan Glonti
  • Marcin Ziembicki
  • Marian Janek
  • Maxim Alexeev
  • Michael Finger
  • Mikhail Barabanov
  • Mikhail Kozhin
  • Mikhail Kulikov
  • Mikhail Negodaev
  • Miroslav FINGER
  • Nadezhda Ladygina
  • Nelli Pukhaeva
  • Nikolai Nikolaev
  • Nikolay Piskunov
  • Nikolay Skachkov
  • Nikolay Topchiev
  • Nikolay ZHURAVLEV
  • Norayr Akopov
  • OLEG DALKAROV
  • Oleg Denisov
  • Oleg Gavrishchuk
  • Oleg Tarasov
  • Oleg Teryaev
  • Polina Nechaeva
  • Roman Kuzyakin
  • Roman Shulyakovsky
  • Roumen Tsenov
  • Ruslan Akhunzyanov
  • Sergei Gerassimov
  • Sergey Gevorkyan
  • Sergey Goloskokov
  • Sergey Reznikov
  • Sergey Suchkov
  • Stepan Shimanskiy
  • Svetlana Gertsenberger
  • Svetlana Kushpil
  • Temur Enik
  • Vaclav Vrba
  • Valeriy Lysenko
  • Valeriy Polyanskiy
  • Valeriy Tokmenin
  • Valery Lyubovitsky
  • Vasilij Kushpil
  • Viacheslav Tereshchenko
  • Victor Abazov
  • Victor DUGINOV
  • Victor Fimushkin
  • Victor Kim
  • Vladimir Andreev
  • Vladimir ANOSOV
  • Vladimir Baskov
  • Vladimir Kovtun
  • Vladimir Kozhin
  • Vladimir Kurbatov
  • Vladimir Ladygin
  • Vladimir Saleev
  • Vsevolod Popov
  • Yann Bedfer
  • Yewgeny Demikhov
  • Yi Wang
  • Yulia Ivanova
  • Yurii Kopylov
  • Yuriy Uzikov
  • Yury Filatov
  • Zhi Zhang
Olga Belova
    • 11:00 AM 7:00 PM
      Arrival
    • 7:00 PM 9:00 PM
      Registration and welcome drink 2h Restaurant "Dubna" (Hotel "Dubna")

      Restaurant "Dubna"

      Hotel "Dubna"

    • 8:30 AM 8:50 AM
      Bus to VBLHEP 20m

      Departure at 8:40

    • 9:00 AM 9:30 AM
      Registration 30m Room 241, near to the Conference hall (VBLHEP, bld. 215)

      Room 241, near to the Conference hall

      VBLHEP, bld. 215

    • 9:30 AM 11:10 AM
      Session 1 Conference hall (VBLHEP, bld. 215)

      Conference hall

      VBLHEP, bld. 215

      Convener: Mr Alexey Guskov (JINR)
      • 9:30 AM
        Opening of the workshop 5m
        Speaker: Prof. Vladimir Kekelidze
      • 9:35 AM
        General introduction 15m
        Speaker: Prof. Roumen Tsenov (LHEP JINR)
        Slides
      • 9:50 AM
        Physics at NICA SPD 30m
        Speaker: Oleg Teryaev (JINR)
        Slides
      • 10:20 AM
        Hard processes at NICA with TMD factorizations 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Vladimir Saleev (Samara National Research University)
        Abstract
        Slides
      • 10:50 AM
        Physics with charmonia at SPD 20m
        Speaker: Igor Denisenko (JINR)
        Slides
    • 11:10 AM 11:30 AM
      COFFEE BREAK 20m
    • 11:30 AM 1:10 PM
      Session 2 Conference hall (VBLHEP, bld. 215)

      Conference hall

      VBLHEP, bld. 215

      Convener: Oleg Teryaev (JINR)
      • 11:30 AM
        Phenomenological aspects of GPDs 20m
        Speaker: Dr Dieter Muller
        Slides
      • 11:50 AM
        Exclusive processes at NICA and GPDs 20m
        The possibility to investigate exclusive mesons production at NICA was studied. It seems that one of the essential reaction might be exclusive Phi or J/Psi production which is dominated by a gluon GPDs. The other important process is the exclusive Drell-Yan production in the proton-proton reaction which is determined by two GPDs. These reaction can be studied at NICA and give an additional excess to GPDs.
        Speaker: Dr Sergey Goloskokov (JINR)
        Slides
      • 12:10 PM
        Spin observables in NN, pd and dd scattering at SPD NICA 20m
        Speaker: Prof. Yury Uzikov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Researches)
        Abstract
        Slides
      • 12:30 PM
        Production of muon pairs and vector mesons in ultraperipheral nuclear collisions. Challenge for SPD? 20m
        The main goal of SPD is the investigation of lepton pairs with high invariant mass production in the collision of polarized protons. In the proposed talk I would discuss the production of μ+ μ− pairs and light vector mesons in electromagnetic fields of two colliding heavy nuclei and challenges which appear in this activity direction for SPD.
        Speaker: Dr Sergey Gevorkyan
        Slides
      • 12:50 PM
        Search for isotopic symmetry violation in strong interactions at high pT region and the tagging stations for SPD 20m
        Speaker: Dr Stepan Shimanskiy (JINR)
        Slides
    • 1:10 PM 2:20 PM
      LUNCH 1h 10m
    • 2:20 PM 4:00 PM
      Session 3 Conference hall (VBLHEP, bld. 215)

      Conference hall

      VBLHEP, bld. 215

      Convener: Dr Alexander Nagaytsev (JINR)
      • 2:20 PM
        Current status of the HEP phenomenology at InSTEC 20m
        We report the activities of our group in the field of HEP phenomenology. In particular we will show our results on the production of ρ0, Phi, and J / ψ mesons and discuss some of its implications and its possibilities of extension to other more complex scenarios as can be the case of ultraperipheral proton-nucleus collisions at relativistic energies, the broadening of the transversal momentum (pT) spectrum (the so called Cronin effect) with the focus on the nuclear modification factor taking into account the merging of the Matrix Elements (ME) approach calculated by the POWHEG in NLO with the Parton Shower (PS) as implemented in the PYTHIA event generator. Finally, we analyze the Z production in the collisions pPb and PbPb at 5.02 TeV with emphasis in the pt distribution, considering an extension of the Glauber model and analyzing the initial vertex.
        Speaker: Dr Fernando Guzman
        Slides
      • 2:40 PM
        Small-angle diffractive processes at SPD 20m
        World-data from LHC, ISR, Protvino, indicating interesting anomalies in differentional cross sections are discussed that can be studied at SPD. Applications of the diffractive data are discussed for monitoring luminosity of SPD.
        Speaker: Prof. Oleg Dalkarov
        Slides
      • 3:00 PM
        Physics with prompt photons at SPD 20m
        Speaker: Aierke Rymbekova (Kairatkyzy)
        Slides
      • 3:20 PM
        Experience of the COMPASS experiment for SPD 20m
        Speaker: Dr Oleg Denisov
        Slides
      • 3:40 PM
        COMPASS++/AMBER project: common topics with SPD 20m
        Speaker: Mr Alexey Guskov (JINR)
        Slides
    • 4:00 PM 4:20 PM
      COFFEE BREAK 20m VBLHEP, bld. 215

      VBLHEP, bld. 215

    • 4:20 PM 6:00 PM
      Session 4 Conference hall (VBLHEP, bld. 215)

      Conference hall

      VBLHEP, bld. 215

      Convener: Prof. Oleg Dalkarov (LPI)
      • 4:20 PM
        SPDroot software 20m
        Speaker: Артур Ткаченко (ОИЯИ)
        Slides
      • 4:40 PM
        Tracks and primary vertex fits for SPD experiment 20m
        We present the results of tracks and primary vertex fits for SPD experiment on the base of Kalman filter. The track resolution and precision of primary vertex reconstruction have been studied for the different setups of SPD tracking detector.
        Speaker: Vladimir Andreev
        Slides
      • 5:00 PM
        Study of soft photon yield in pp and pA interactions at JINR 20m
        Over 30 years there has been no comprehensive understanding of the mechanism of soft photons formation (energy smaller 50 MeV). Experimental data indicate an excess of their yield in hadron and nuclear interactions in comparison with calculations performed in QED. For a more thorough study of this phenomenon at the Nuclotron (JINR’s superconducting accelerator), preliminary measurements have been carried out with using an electromagnetic calorimeter based on BGO crystals. These results are consistent with the world ones. In JINR, in connection with the building of a new accelerator complex NICA, it has become possible to carry out such studies in pp, pA and AA interactions at energies up to 25 A GeV. Our group develops the conception of an electromagnetic calorimeter on type “spaghetti” based on gadolinium gallium garnet (GaGG) crystals, which have significantly lower the threshold for registration of photons. The first tests of electromagnetic calorimeters manufactured at JINR on the basis of the GaGG and a mixture of tungstate and copper are reported.
        Speaker: Dr Elena Kokoulina (JINR)
        Slides
      • 5:20 PM
        Production of Sigma0 hyperon at LHC with ALICE 20m
        Speaker: Prof. Alexander Borissov
        Slides
      • 5:40 PM
        Study of heavy quarkonium states in proton-proton collisions at NICA 20m
        Speaker: Dr Mikhail Barabanov (JINR)
        Slides
    • 9:00 AM 9:20 AM
      Bus to VBLHEP 20m

      Departure at 9:00

    • 9:30 AM 11:10 AM
      Session 5 Conference hall (VBLHEP, bld. 215)

      Conference hall

      VBLHEP, bld. 215

      Convener: Dr Gennady Alexeev
      • 9:30 AM
        The Data Acquisition System for the COMPASS++/AMBER Experiment 20m
        COMPASS++/AMBER experiment is a multipurpose spectrometer at the CERN SPS. It will be a place where variety of measurements with different beams and targets address fundamental questions of Quantum Chromodynamics. A development of the data acquisition had a challenge to fulfil requirements of a wide physics program with different event selection criteria on one side and a high event rate capability on the other needed for high precision measurements. The first part of the solution was to employ trigger less front-end electronics, which continuously digitizes detectors’ signals and streams zero suppressed data to the next stage of the data acquisition. The second part was a built-in digital trigger processor which reduces data rate to a level below 1 GB/s. The trigger processor and the event builder are being realized in cost effective configurable hardware using Field Programmable Gate Array(FPGA) technology. The system will be capable to process 20 GB of data per second. The architecture of the DAQ and the state of the development will be presented.
        Speaker: Igor Konorov
        Slides
      • 9:50 AM
        DAQ SPD: status report 20m
        Speaker: Dr Anatoly Kulikov
        Slides
      • 10:10 AM
        ECAL: status report 20m
        The current calorimeter status and module design are presented. Monte-Carlo simulation of the calorimeter response for electrons, pions and muons are shown. The cosmic rays test are presented with PMT readout. The SiPm readout is presented too via PC board and Front End electronic modules.
        Speaker: Dr Oleg Gavrishchuk
        Slides
      • 10:30 AM
        Possible contribution to front-end electronics for calorimeters 20m
        Speaker: Mr Marcin Ziembicki
        Slides
      • 10:50 AM
        Zero degree calorimeter readout 20m
        Speaker: Mr Igor Alekseev
        Slides
    • 11:10 AM 11:30 AM
      COFFEE BREAK 20m
    • 11:30 AM 1:10 PM
      Session 6 Conference hall (VBLHEP, bld. 215)

      Conference hall

      VBLHEP, bld. 215

      Convener: Dr Vladimir LADYGIN (VBLHEP, JINR)
      • 11:30 AM
        Beams of "Pahra" accelerator of the P N Lebedev Physical Institute for calibrations of SPD detectors 20m
        For future calibrations of detectors of the SPD, the characteristics of the accelerator "Pakhra" of the P N Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the calibration secondary electron beam are presented. Plans for further works are shown as well.
        Speaker: Dr Vladimir Baskov
        Slides
      • 11:50 AM
        Range system: status report 20m
        Speaker: Dr Gennady Alexeev
        Slides
      • 12:10 PM
        Test zone of SPD. Current status and plans of development in 2019-2020 20m
        Speaker: Anton Baldin (JINR)
        Slides
      • 12:30 PM
        Straw tracker: status report 20m
        Speaker: Temur Enik (Jinr)
        Slides
      • 12:50 PM
        Highly Homogeneous Large Volume Magnetic Fields 20m
        Speaker: Eugeny Demikhov (Lebedev Physical Institute Russian Academy of Sciences)
        Slides
    • 1:10 PM 2:20 PM
      LUNCH 1h 10m
    • 2:20 PM 5:00 PM
      Round table 1 Room 347 (VBLHEP, bld. 215)

      Room 347

      VBLHEP, bld. 215

      Convener: Prof. Roumen Tsenov (LHEP JINR)
      slides
      • 2:20 PM
        Участие группы ХНУ имени В.Н. Каразина (г. Харьков) в работах по программе ECAL SPD 10m
        Базовое оборудование ХНУ имени В.Н. Каразина (г. Харьков) по исследованию радиационной стойкости пластмассовых сцинтилляторов. Методические работы по порезке волокон, напылению зеркала, измерению длины затухания, изготовление W/Pb пластин абсорбера, моделирование модуля ECAL. Возможности группы ядерной электроники.
        Speaker: Dr Vladimir Kovtun
        Slides
      • 2:30 PM
        Theoretical study and computer simulation ( + MC development) of hard processes for SPD NICA experiment 10m
        Speaker: Prof. Vladimir Saleev (Samara National Research University)
        Slides
      • 2:40 PM
        Tomsk group 10m
        Speaker: Prof. Valery Lyubovitsky (Tuebingen University)
        Slides
      • 2:50 PM
        Group Introduction: Warsaw University of Technology 10m
        Speaker: Mr Marcin Ziembicki (Warsaw University of Technology and AstroCeNT)
        Slides
      • 3:00 PM
        Radiation Physics Laboratory of Belgorod National Research University 10m
        Speaker: Mr Alexander Kubankin
        Slides
      • 3:10 PM
        ~ 10m
        1) NRC KI - PNPI, Gatchina 2) St. Petersburg Polytechnic University 3) Chilean Cluster (on behalf of Sergey Kuleshov from Chile)
        Speaker: Prof. Victor Kim (PNPI NRC KI, Gatchina & SPbPU, St. Petersburg)
        Slides
      • 3:20 PM
        Meson production in hadron collisions. CEA, IRFU, DPhN, Université Paris-Saclay, France 10m
        Speaker: Prof. Egle Tomasi-Gustafsson
        Slides
      • 3:30 PM
        ITEP group presentation 10m
        Speaker: Dr Igor Alekseev (ITEP)
        Slides
      • 3:40 PM
        Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics of RAS 10m
        Speaker: Prof. Nikolai Nikolaev (Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics)
        Slides
      • 3:50 PM
        P.N.Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Science (LPI, Moscow) 10m
        Speaker: Prof. Oleg Dalkarov (LPI)
        Slides
      • 4:00 PM
        INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR PROBLEMS OF BELARUSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY MINSK, BELARUS (INP BSU) 10m
        Speaker: Prof. Alexander Lobko
        Slides
      • 4:10 PM
        Joint Czech Group @ SPD 10m
        Speaker: Prof. Miroslav Finger
        Slides
      • 4:20 PM
        Expression of interest for SPD experiment at NICA from SINP MSU 10m
        Speaker: Dr Alexander Chepurnov
        Slides
      • 4:30 PM
        Torino group (present situation) 10m
        Speaker: Prof. Daniel Panzieri
        Slides
      • 4:40 PM
        Saint-Petersburg State University, Laboratory of Ultra-High Energy Physics Expression of interest to join the SPD Collaboration at NICA 10m
        Speaker: Prof. Victor Kim
        Slides
    • 4:20 PM 4:40 PM
      COFFEE BREAK 20m
    • 4:40 PM 6:00 PM
      Session 7 Conference hall (VBLHEP, bld. 215)

      Conference hall

      VBLHEP, bld. 215

      Convener: Dr Oleg Denisov
      • 4:40 PM
        Drell-Yan measurements with SPD. Feasibilities and asymmetries 20m
        Speaker: Artem Ivanov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)
        Slides
      • 5:00 PM
        Drell-Yan measurements with SPD. Background studies 20m
        Speaker: Ruslan Akhunzyanov
        Slides
      • 5:20 PM
        Background study for MMT-DY process at SPD (mumu case) 20m
        Minimum-bias background, as the most strong one, was simulated at the level of PYTHIA6 and considered in the two regions of muon pair invariant mass. The set of criteria for background discrimination is proposed. The efficiencies of these criteria are estimated.
        Speaker: Dr Anna Skachkova (JINR)
        Slides
      • 5:40 PM
        Maximisation of energy deposition in GAGG crystal with the W, Pb and Cu coating 20m
        Speaker: Mrs Ekaterina Mosolova
        Slides
    • 9:00 AM 9:20 AM
      Bus to VBLHEP 20m

      Departure at 9:00

    • 9:30 AM 11:10 AM
      Session 8 Conference hall (VBLHEP, bld. 215)

      Conference hall

      VBLHEP, bld. 215

      Convener: Dr Stepan Shimanskiy (JINR)
      • 9:30 AM
        Polarized beams at NICA 15m
        Speaker: Prof. Alexander Kovalenko (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)
        Slides
      • 9:45 AM
        Protons and Deuterons Polarization Control in the Transparent Spin Mode of the NICA collider 15m
        The NICA collider with two solenoidal snakes allows one to operate with polarized protons and deuterons in the Transparent Spin mode when any polarization direction repeats after particle’s each turn, which means that the magnetic lattice of the collider is transparent to the spin. The schemes of protons and deuterons beam polarization control in SPD/MPD detectors are presented. Spin-flipping systems, as well as on-line polarization monitoring systems, are discussed which make it possible to carry out the experiments with polarized beams at the NICA collider at the new level of the accuracy.
        Speaker: Dr Yury Filatov (MIPT)
        Slides
      • 10:00 AM
        Concept of DC field 6T superconducting solenoid 10m
        Speaker: Mr Valeriy Lysenko
        Slides
      • 10:10 AM
        NICA absolute polarimeter 20m
        The development of the absolute polarimeter APol with an internal polarized atomic hydrogen/deuterium jet target for NICA collider is presented. It is proposed to install the polarimeter into the “warm” gap of the collider ring arc. The polarized jet will cross both accelerated beams. The jet target is based on the classical atomic beam source principle. Expected target thickness of the jet in the interaction regions is 10^12 atom/cm^2. APol utilizes a reaction of elastic scattering of identical nuclei (protons or deuterons). The polarization of the accelerated beams is determined by use of an actual analyzing power which is measured in turn in scattering of unpolarized accelerated beams on the polarized atomic jet. The polarization of the atomic hydrogen/deuterium jet will be measured by Breit-Rabi polarimeter placed under the collider ring into a jet catcher volume.
        Speaker: Mr Mikhail Kulikov
        Slides
      • 10:30 AM
        Polarimetry at Nuclotron/NICA/SPD 20m
        Speaker: Mr Nikolay Piskunov (JINR, Dubna)
        Slides
      • 10:50 AM
        Vertex detector: status report 20m
        Speaker: Nikolay Zamyatin
        Slides
    • 11:10 AM 11:30 AM
      COFFEE BREAK 20m VBLHEP, bld. 215

      VBLHEP, bld. 215

    • 11:30 AM 1:10 PM
      Session 9 Conference hall (VBLHEP, bld. 215)

      Conference hall

      VBLHEP, bld. 215

      Convener: Dr Anatoly Kulikov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna)
      • 11:30 AM
        Silicon detector module quality control demonstrator in LPI Moscow 20m
        The group was taking part in the assembly and tests of currently working silicon pixel modules of ATLAS detector (LHC CERN). The demonstrator layout, the group testing experience and plans for using it in SPD NICA will be presented.
        Speaker: Dr Polina Nechaeva
        Slides
      • 11:50 AM
        Design of Silicon Module prototype for Vertex Detector SPD 20m
        Current status and plans of design Silicon module prototype for Inner Tracker SPD at the NICA is reported. Module based on two double side silicon strip detectors with size 63x63 mm^2, 640 strips on each side, witch connect with readout electronics by low-mass microcables.
        Speaker: Mr Bogdan Topko
        Slides
      • 12:10 PM
        PID system for SPD detector and TOF technology for barrel and forward parts 20m
        Speaker: Dr Alexander Akindinov
        Slides
      • 12:30 PM
        An experience of MRPCs research for a TOF system 20m
        Speaker: Dr Evgeny Ladygin
        Slides
      • 12:50 PM
        Status of MRPC TOF technology and development trend 20m
        Speaker: Prof. Yi Wang
        Abstract
        Slides
    • 1:10 PM 2:20 PM
      LUNCH 1h 10m
    • 2:20 PM 4:20 PM
      Round table 2 Room 347 (VBLHEP, bld. 215)

      Room 347

      VBLHEP, bld. 215

      Convener: Prof. Roumen Tsenov (LHEP JINR)
      slides
    • 4:20 PM 4:40 PM
      COFFEE BREAK 20m VBLHEP, bld. 215

      VBLHEP, bld. 215

    • 4:40 PM 5:40 PM
      Round table 3 Room 347 (VBLHEP, bld. 215)

      Room 347

      VBLHEP, bld. 215

      Convener: Prof. Roumen Tsenov (LHEP JINR)
    • 5:30 PM 6:00 PM
      Excursion 30m

      Excursion to NICA construction site and Magnet factory

    • 7:30 PM 9:00 PM
      Dinner 1h 30m Restaurant "Dubna" (Hotel "Dubna")

      Restaurant "Dubna"

      Hotel "Dubna"

    • 6:00 AM 11:00 AM
      Departure