NICA – Nuclotron-based Ion Collider Facility

Period of project implementation: 2010-2023
Start of the heavy ion experimental programme at BM@N is expected in 2020
Commissioning of the collider scheduled for 2020
Cost and funding of the project: USD 540 million (roughly 471 million EUR); funding by Russian government at 40%
NICA´s host institution JINR is an international intergovernmental organization with established practice of international access
Modern experimental-accelerator facility for using a wide range of high intensity ion beams; heavy ions accelerated up to kinetic beam energies of 4.5 GeV/u for fixed target experiments (center-of-mass energy √snn = 3.5 GeV), and √snn = 11 GeV in collider experiments
Research: relativistic heavy ion physics and particle physics, for instance in nucleon spin structure; radiobiology, applied research

CREMLINplus related objectives of the NICA ion collider

Develop the instrumentation for NICA and FAIR/CBM, including the engineering and prototyping of fast detectors and the development of high rate data acquisition chain and software packages for simulation and data analysis
Develop a beyond state-of-the-art CMOS pixel sensors (MAPS) for high-rate Silicon trackers for several particle physics and heavy-ion research communities in Europe and Russia for the potential upgrade of many experimental setups (e.g. at SCT, at NICA, at CERN-colliders)

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