PROJECT OF THE NUCLOTRON-BASED ION COLLIDER FACILITY (NICA) AT JINR

G. Trubnikov, N. Agapov, V. Alexandrov, A. Butenko, E.D. Donets, E.E. Donets, A. Eliseev, V. Kekelidze, H. Khodzhibagiyan, V. Kobets, A. Kovalenko, O. Kozlov, A. Kuznetsov, I. Meshkov, V. Mikhaylov, V. Monchinsky, V. Shevtsov, A. Sidorinª, A. Sissakian, A. Smirnov, A. Sorin, V. Toneev, V. Volkov, V. Zhabitsky, O. Brovko, I. Issinsky, A. Fateev, A. Philippov

Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia

Abstract

The Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility (NICA) is a new accelerator complex being constructed at JINR aimed to provide collider experiments with heavy ions up to uranium at maximum energy (center of mass) equal to √s ~11 GeV/u. It includes new 6.2 MeV/u linac, 440 MeV/u booster, upgraded SC synchrotron Nuclotron and collider consisting of two SC rings, which provide average luminosity of 10²⁷cm^-2∙s^-1. The new facility will allow also an effective acceleration of light ions to the Nuclotron maximum energy and an increase of intensity of polarized deuteron beams up to the level above 10¹⁰ particles/cycle. Accelerator complex NICA is being built on the experience and technological developments at the Nuclotron facility and incorporates new technological concepts. The scheme of the facility, its operation scenario and beam dynamics are presented in the report.

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SIMULATION OF PELLET TARGET EXPERIMENTS WITH BETACOOL CODE

A. Smirnov¹, A. Sidorin¹, D. Krestnikovª¹, R. Pivin¹, D. Prasuhn², M. Wolke²

¹Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia

²Institut für Kernphysik, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Deutsch

Abstract

In last years at GSI (Germany) new accelerator complex project FAIR is being realized. One of the most important goals of this project is caring out an experiment with internal target PANDA [1]. The only way to achieve design luminosity value is to use a pellet target. However, such a target is coming up with short-scale luminosity variation. Peak to mean luminosity ratio can reach a big value unacceptable for detector.

A numerical simulation of this experiment is connected to two different time-scale processes. The first one is the short-time process, which describes luminosity variations while one pellet is crossing the beam. This process can be about tenths microsecond long. The long-time process of the beam parameter evolution (particle number, transverse and longitudinal profiles) are defined by the beam losses and equilibrium between target heating and electron cooling.

This article presents the numerical simulations with BETACOOL code [2] which allows solving both these tasks.

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SIMULATION STUDY OF STABLE AND MOVING BARRIER BUCKETS USING BETACOOL CODE

A. Smirnov, A. Sidorin, R. Pivinª, D. Krestnikov

Institute of High Current Electronics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia

Abstract

A moving barrier RF bucket is an effective ion beam accumulation method used, for instance, in Fermilab's Recycler and proposed for NESR at FAIR project. A possible application of a stationary RF bucket is to compensate an ionization energy loss in experiments with an internal target. The ionization energy loss is the main physical effect limiting the experiment duration. The barrier bucket application permits to sufficiently decrease of a required power of a cooling system when a high resolution in an experiment is necessary[1].

Recently a new program was developed for barrier RF bucket simulation for FAIR rings [2]. To compare predictions of different models and to estimate efficiency of the barrier bucket application in internal target experiments the new algorithms were implemented into Betacool program [3] also.

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