2024: Launch of the NICA collider, which has been under construction for 8 years
On June 13, 2024, in Dubna, the President Russia Vladimir Putin launched the technological launch of the NICA (Nucleotron based Ion Collider facility) in. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) This launch marked an important stage in the implementation of one of the key mega-heights projects.
According to the director of JINR Grigory Trubnikov, the supply of test current to the magnetic system of the NICA complex began immediately after the president's team. The demonstration of the current supply to the superconducting magnet of the MPD detector and the collider magnets took place in real time. Trubnikov noted that this stage of preparation is necessary for the start of the international research program, scheduled for mid-2025.
The NICA project includes testing the operation of superconducting magnet power supplies and testing the complex's first experimental device, the Multi-Purpose Detector (MPD). The launch of the MPD superconducting solenoid magnet is an important step towards full collider operation.
According to TASS, the NICA collider, which covers an area of 6 hectares, was developed and built over eight years. More than 130 scientific institutes and enterprises from 30 countries of the world took part in the project, including the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). In total, 2,400 specialists are involved in the project, of which 1,650 represent the Russian Federation.
The construction of the complex required the installation of 6,300 piles by the indentation method to ensure stability on complex water-saturated soils. The total volume of special concrete used for construction amounted to 53 thousand cubic meters. m. JINR scientists plan to use a collider to recreate and study quark-gluon plasma, a state of matter that existed 14 billion years ago, from which nuclear matter and the universe formed.[1]
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