Workshop on “Flow, Jet Quenching and Strong Coupling Physics”

Dec. 17-19, 2016, Huzhou University, Huzhou, China

Introduction on the NICA project

Zebo Tang (唐泽波)

University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
State Key Lab. of Particle Detection & Electronics, MoST

Thanks to Itzhak Tserruya, Golovatyuk Slava,

Fuqiang Wang, V. Kekelidze for the materials
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 Nuclotron based Ion Collider fAcility
Synchrotron Nuclotron is in operation since 1993 at JINR at Dubna
NICA accelerator complex is under construction (started at 2013)

R=231.5 m

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 NICA and Nuclotron beams
 Heavy ion colliding beams up to 197Au79+ + 197Au79+ at:
sNN = 4 - 11 GeV , Laverage= 1×1027 cm-2s-1
same or higher Laverage for lighter ions
 Polarized beams of protons and deuterons in collider mode:
p+p spp = 12 - 26 GeV Lmax ≈ 1×1032 cm-2s-1
d+d sNN = 4 - 13.8 GeV
 Nuclotron extracted beams of ions and polarized protons and
deuterons for fixed target experiments:
Li - Au = 1 - 4.5 GeV/u ion kinetic energy
p = 5 - 12.6 GeV kinetic energy
d = 2 - 5.9 GeV/u ion kinetic energy
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 NICA Complex
KRION-6T+HILac (3MeV/u) Accelertor complex LHEP
PS and existing
LU-20 (5MeV/u) In preparation

Transfer lines
Booster
NUCLOTRON (600 MeV/u)
0.6-4.5 GeV/u

MultiPurpose
Detector - MPD

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 NICA Physics

NICA NICA

QCD matter at NICA:

• Dense baryonic matter
• Energy covers Critical point search and Onset of deconfinement
• Complementary to STAR-BES, CBM and CERN experiments
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 Present and future HI machines
Fixed target: Colliders:
20?? NA60+?
L-limited by scale of L,
20?? SIS-300 (FAIR) detectors in cm-2s-1
2022? SIS-100 (FAIR) 1027
2020 NICA-MPD (JINR)
2018 NICA-BM@N (JINR) 1025
2017 Booster (JINR)

1023

LHC (CERN)

BES STAR
(BNL)
SPS (NA-49/61, CERN)
SIS-18 (GSI)

2 4 6 8 20 40 60 80 √SNN, GeV
1 10 102 for Au+Au
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 Compare to other facilities
CBM

Interaction rate [Hz] SIS-100 FAIR (2022+)

NICA/BM@N II

NICA/BM@N I
NICA/MPD (2020)
HADES
STAR F.T. STAR BES II

NA-61/SHINE

2 3 4 56 8
Collision energy √sNN [GeV]
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 Current status of NICA accelerator
• Design phase completed.

• Technical solutions approved by MAC.

• Contract for the construction of the collider building signed a year

ago on September 15, 2015 with STRABAG.

Civil construction has started.

• Superconducting magnets serial production has started.

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 Civil construction and Magnet production

http://nucloweb.jinr.ru/nucloserv/205corp.htm

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 MPD (Multi-Purpose Detector)
Stage 1: TPC, TOF, ECal, FHCal and FFD
Stage 2: IT and Endcaps
(tracker, TOF, ECal)
• 9 m long, 6m diameter
• Low material budget
• Good tracking and pid
• Tracking (TPC):
up to |h|<2, 2π in azimuth
• PID (TOF, TPC, ECAL):
hadrons, e, g
• Event characterization
(FHCAL):
centrality & event plane
Technical Design Reports:
http://nica.jinr.ru/files/mpd_tdr.htm
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 SC solenoid and TPC
Superconducting solenoid:
• 0.66 T, ~900 tons
• Contract signed with ASG superconductors (Genova, Italy)
Time Projection Chamber:
• 3.4m long, R=0.27-1.4 m
• Basic R&D finished, assembly workshop in preparation
HV-electrode
Sketch of TPC 3400 ~ 28 kV Ø2800

12 Readout
chamber

E E

~ 110 000 readout channels

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 Time-of-Flight system
Forward Fast Detector MRPC

Active area: ~56 m2

# channels: 13824

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 Calorimetry
ECAL – shashlik type Forward HCal Trigger
ECal sector Centrality
Event plane

ECal module:
25 kg

σ(E)/(E) = 53%/√E(GeV) +10%

Module tested at CERN and DESY

𝜎 = 5% ⊕ 2% Test fulfills required resolution
𝐸 𝐸
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 MPD performances
Momentum resolution Particle id (dE/dx)

< 2% @ pT<2 GeV/c

Efficiency vs pT Particle id (dE/dx and ToF)

Down to 0.1 GeV/c

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 Hyperons and hypernuclei

𝟑
𝜦𝑯
105
10 weeks
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 Electron and dielectron
dE/dx and TOF

σω≈14 MeV/c2

Hadron suppression
up to 10-5

Yields, central Au+Au at √sNN = 8.8 GeV

Particle Yields Decay BR Effic. % Yield/1 w
mode
4p y=0
r 31 17 e+e- 4.7 . 10-5 35 7.3 . 104
w 20 11 e+e- 7.1 . 10-5 35 7.2 . 104
j 2.6 1.2 e+e- 3 . 10-4 35 1.7 . 104

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 BM@N (Baryonic Matter at Nuclotron)
MPD stage I
Fixed target experiment
using Nuclotron beams
Large aperture magnet
(~1m gap between poles)
BM@N plan
Technical runs with d, Li, C
2016 – 2017;

Physics run (I stage) with Kr

int rate 20 kHz
End of 2017;

Physics run (II stage) with Au

int rate 50 kHz:
2019
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 BM@N performances
Technical run d+C 4 AGeV, 500K events

Physics run UrQMD & DCM-QGSM, Au+Au, Ekin.= 4.5A GeV 20 KHz trigger

900K central events  7.5M X- in 1 month

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 NICA overall schedule
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Injection complex
Lu-20 upgrade
HI Source
HI Linac
running
Nuclotron time
general development
extracted channels
Booster
Collider
startup configuration
design configuration
BM@N
I stage
II stage
MPD
solenoid
TPC, TOF, Ecal (barrel)
upgraded end-caps
Civil engineering
MPD Hall
SPD Hall
collider tunnel
HEBT Nuclotron-collider
Cryogenic
for Booster
for Collider

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 NICA Physics with MPD and BM@N
Systematic study of pp, pA and AA
 Bulk properties, EOS
- particle yields & spectra, fermtoscopy, flow

 Search for QCD Critical Point

- event-by-event fluctuations & correlations

 Onset of phase transition:

MPD - deconfinement (QGP thermal radiation)
- In-medium modification of hadron properties:
r, w, f  e+e- and continuum m < 3 GeV/c2

 Enhanced strangeness production

 Chiral Magnetic (Votical) effect

- L polarization

 Strangeness in nuclear matter

- hypernuclei
BM@N
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 Anything to do with us?
• 2010/06, NICA people from JINR visited Tsinghua University
and USTC

• 2011/02, we visited JINR for MRPC beam test

• 2016/09, Itzhak Tserruya gave seminars at Tsinghua University

and USTC

• 2016/11, Fuqiang and I visited JINR

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 Our view of NICA

Civil construction

Photo taken at the main

gate of JINR, Dubna
Dec. 1, 2016

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 Fuqiang at BM@N

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 MPD MRPC Assembly

MPD detector
beam test facility

Magnet assembly & test

A letter of intent written by

Fuqiang Wang sent to MoST
of China after our visit
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 Summary
• NICA facility has the potential for competitive research in the
field of dense baryonic matter

• NICA complex construction is in good shape

• Accelerator construction in progress
• Construction of both detectors, BM@N and MPD, is
progressing well

• JINR is looking for more international collaborations

• Anyone interested in is welcome to contact Prof. Fuqiang Wang

or Zebo Tang
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