LXXI International conference "NUCLEUS – 2021. Nuclear physics and elementary particle physics. Nuclear physics technologies"

Physics with SPD experiment at NICA collider

20 Sept 2021, 11:25

35m

Plenary report Section 4. Relativistic nuclear physics, elementary particle physics and high-energy physics. Plenary

Speaker

Victor Kim (Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute - PNPI NRC KI, Gatchina & SPbPU, St. Petersburg)

Description

A brief overview of the Spin Physics Detector (SPD) experiment is presented.
SPD is a future multipurpose experiment foreseen to run at the NICA collider, which is currently under construction at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR, Dubna, Russia).
The physics program of the experiment is based on collisions of longitudinally and transversely polarized protons and deuterons at c.m.s. NN energy up to 27 GeV and luminosity up to $10^{32}\text{cm}^{−2}\text{s}^{−1}.$
SPD will operate as a universal facility for the comprehensive study of the unpolarized and polarized gluon content of the nucleon, using complementary probes such as: charmonia, open-charm, and prompt-photon production processes.
Possible SPD studies at the first stage of the NICA collider operation with unpolarized proton and deuteron beams are also discussed.

Presentation materials

Kim_SPD_NUCLEUS_2021_v3.pdf