Welcome to NICA days 2015 in Warsaw

3 Nov 2015, 08:00 → 7 Nov 2015, 18:00 Europe/Warsaw

Marek Peryt (Warsaw University of Technology)

(Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility) 

International scientific and engineering conference associated with the
XI Workshop on Particle Correlations and Femtoscopy (WPCF) 

nica2015@if.pw.edu.pl

General information and topics:

"The Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility (NICA) is the new flagship of the Joint Institue for Nuclear Research."

A new mega-project NICA is being developed at JINR in Dubna. The project is in advanced stages of realization. Considering that, it is a perfect moment to present its actual state and to find new people from scientific and engineering environment, companies and students for further development and cooperation.

This conference will bring together experts, scientists, engineers and students interested in heavy ion physics and in various aspects of design and construction of  measuring equipment for NICA experiments.

Topics:

• Heavy-Ion Collisions and QCD Phase Diagram at NICA energies
• World experiments and theoretical models related to NICA
• Scientific program of JINR and Laboratory of High Energy Physics
• NICA acceleration and experimental complex
• Physics program of NICA experiments
• New technologies, methods and devices developed for NICA
• Basic equipment for NICA detectors
• Managing system, slow control and Databases
• Data Acquisition Systems, Data Quality and Security
• International collaboration
• Opportunities for juniors

These topics will be covered with review reports, invited and contributed talks and the progress reports. We encourage you to participate and to submit the abstract of your talk or poster.
NICA-days are associated with XI Workshop on Particle Correlation and Femtoscopy(XI WPCF), which will be held at the same place and time. Common sessions are envisaged as well, expecting interests of participants in the topics of both conferences.

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POSTER_NICA_DAYS_151010.pdf

Tuesday 3 November

08:00 → 09:00 Registration

09:10 → 09:20 Welcome

Speaker: Rajmund BACEWICZ (WUT)

09:20 → 09:30 Welcome

Speaker: Anita Uchańska (WUT)

CZIiTT_litopad_2015_funkcje_eng.pdf

CZIiTT_litopad_2015_funkcje_eng.ppt

09:30 → 09:40 Welcome

Speaker: Richard Lednicky (JINR)

09:40 → 09:50 Welcome

Speaker: Michael WALIGÓRSKI

09:50 → 10:20 Brief history of femtoscopy and WPCF - personal view

Speaker: Jan, Marian PLUTA (WUT)

JP-WPCF15.pdf

JP-WPCF15.ppt

10:20 → 10:50 Coffee break

10:50 → 11:20 NICA Project

Speaker: Vladimir KEKELIDZE (JINR)

11:20 → 11:50 Femtoscopy: the way back in the energy scale from ALICE to NICA

Speakers: Daniel WIELANEK, Ludmila MALININA

femto_malinina_NICA_WPCF2015_2.pdf

Femtoscopic_study_at_MPD_facility_2.pdf

Femtoscopic_study_at_MPD_facility_2.pptx

11:50 → 12:20 From the Physical Model to the Electronic System - OMTF Trigger for CMS

Speaker: Wojciech ZABOLOTNY

OMTF-from-model.pdf

12:20 → 12:50 Dense cold baryonic matter

Speaker: Alexy STAWINSKIY

Stavinskiy-NICA-DAYS-Warsaw-2015.pdf

12:50 → 14:20 Lunch

14:20 → 15:05 Three decades of femtoscopy in relativistic heavy ion collisions: from the roots up (lecture for students)

Speaker: Mike LISA

15:05 → 15:35 Results and Future of Beam Energy Scan (BES) Program at RHIC

Speaker: Grażyna ODYNIEC

WPCF_2015_WAW.pdf

15:35 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 18:00 Special session

Mrowczynski.pdf

18:00 → 21:00 Welcome drink

Wednesday 4 November

08:00 → 09:00 Registration

09:00 → 09:05 Welcome

Speaker: Jan, Marian PLUTA

09:05 → 09:35 Status of the NICA project

Speaker: Vladimir KEKELIDZE

Kekelidze_NICA_1.pdf

Kekelidze_NICA_1.pptx

09:35 → 09:55 NICA accelerator complex

NICA accelerator complex includes set of ion sources, two linear accelerators, two ssynchrotrons, collider rings and beam transfer lines. Structure of the facility, operation scenario and jeneral paeameters are presented.

Speaker: Anatoly Sidorin (JINR)

NICA_Warsaw_2015.pdf

09:55 → 10:25 Status of fix target BM@N Project

Speaker: Mikhail KAPISHIN

BMN_Warsaw15.pdf

BMN_Warsaw15.ppt

10:25 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:20 TPC MPD Design and Status

Speaker: Stiepan RAZIN

nica-days-2015-final.pdf

11:20 → 11:35 MPD Conceptual Design

Speaker: Vliacheslav GOLOVATYUK

NICA Days_2015_Golovatyuk_02_11_2015_f.ppt

11:35 → 11:55 Design of the Time-of-Flight System of the MPD.

The Time of Flight system (TOF) of the MPD is one of the elements for particles identification. The TOF MPD has to provide time resolution better 100 ps for effective separation of charged hadrons. The report focuses on the detailed design and technical problems of all the subsystems of the TOF.

Speaker: Vadim Babkin (Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (RU))

Babkin_MPD_ToF_design_Warsaw_11_2015.pdf

Babkin_MPD_ToF_design_Warsaw_11_2015.pptx

11:55 → 12:20 FFD MPD Design and Status

Speaker: Vladimir YUREVICH

Fast Forward Detector for MPD.pdf

12:20 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:00 Zero degree calorimeter at MPD/NICA

The motivations for the Zero degree calorimeter (ZDC) use at MPD are discussed. ZDC is intended for the measurements of the geometry (centrality) and the reaction plane of nucleus-nucleus collisions. Two identical calorimeters would be placed at the opposite sides of MPD to detect the non-participating fragments or spectators. ZDC is modular hadron calorimeter with high granulation in both transverse and longitudinal directions. Each ZDC module consists of the lead/scintillator sandwiches with the sampling ratio 4:1 that ensures the compensation condition of the hadron calorimeter. The light readout of the ZDC would be done by novel silicon photomultipliers, SiPMs with high pixel density and large dynamic range. The parameters of the calorimeter are discussed.

Speaker: Alexander Ivashkin (INR RAS, Moscow)

ivashkin_warsaw_2015.pdf

14:00 → 14:30 MPD Integration

In that report presented status of MPD integration.

Speaker: Nikolai Topilin (Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (RU))

Topilin_MPD Intergration_Warsaw_4_Nov_2015.pdf

Topilin_MPD Intergration_Warsaw_4_Nov_2015.ppt

14:30 → 15:00 Simulation and analysis software for the NICA experiments.

Speaker: Oleg ROGACHEVSKIY

rogachevsky.pdf

15:00 → 15:40 Coffee breake

15:40 → 16:00 MPD - Data Acquisition System

Speaker: Ilia SLEPNEV

2015-11-03 - MPD DAQ - NICA Days 2015.odp

2015-11-03 - MPD DAQ - NICA Days 2015.pdf

2015-11-03 - MPD DAQ - NICA Days 2015.pdf

16:00 → 16:20 MPD time synchronisation system based on White Rabbit technology

Speaker: Aleksei SHUTOV

NICA_Warsaw_2015_Shutov_Alexey.pdf

16:20 → 16:40 Electronics for MPD

Speaker: Aleksiey TERLETSKY

Terletskiy_Warsaw.pdf

16:40 → 17:00 Slow Control System

Speaker: Vitaly SHUTOV

_sc_status_mpd_201511.pdf

_sc_status_mpd_201511.ppt

17:00 → 17:20 ToF system of the BM@N experiment.

The BM&N is designed as a spectrometer capable of detecting charged hadrons, electrons and photons in heavy-ion collisions in the energy range of the Nuclotron. To reach this goal the detector will include a precise tracking system and a high-performance particle identification system based on time-of-flight measurements. ToF system consist of two part: ToF400 and ToF700 which are located on 4 m and 7 m from target respectively. ToF700 wall will provide with the pion/kaon separation up to 3 GeV/c and proton/kaon separation up to 5 GeV/c in “high rate” region near to beam. ToF400 will provide identification of charged hadrons at intermediate momentum (0.1 – 2.5 GeV/c) and large angles. In both case ToF system will based on multigap Resistivity Plate Chamber with time resolution better than 80 ps. Result of R&D and beam test of mRPC for ToF400 will present in report. The construction of ToF400 wall, design of gas box for mRPC, and gas system are discussing.

Speaker: Mikhail Rumiantcev (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)

Rumiantcev_NICAdays.pdf

Rumiantcev_NICAdays.pptx

Thursday 5 November

09:00 → 12:00 Excursion

12:00 → 12:40 Coffee break

12:40 → 13:00 STAR Program overview

review the STAR Program in the next decade

Speaker: Zhangbu Xu (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

STAR_Future_NICA_Warsaw_2015.pdf

STAR_Future_NICA_Warsaw_2015.pptx

13:00 → 13:20 Synergy in fast timing R&D: FIT/ALICE/LHC and FFD/MPD/NICA

The three flagships of the European Accelerator Physics are LHC at CERN, FAIR at GSI, and NICA in Dubna. FAIR and NICA are still under construction. Although the LHC is in operation since 2009, it will undergo a major upgrade during the shutdown scheduled for 2018 – 2019. The expected increase in luminosity and bunch crossing frequency will significantly exceed the original LHC design specifications. In that sense we may refer to it as a "new LHC". New accelerator facilities require detectors and experimental setups that would cope with the new demands and harsh working conditions. All three accelerator projects have generated significant detector R&D but until recently there was relatively little direct collaboration between the experiments. This talk will show the first benefits of the collaboration between the group working on the Fast Interaction Trigger for ALICE Upgrade at CERN LHC and the team building Fast Forward Detector for NICA’s Multi-Purpose Detector. In conclusion, further avenues of joint R&D will be proposed.

Speaker: Wladyslaw Henryk Trzaska (University of Jyvaskyla (FI))

Trzaska_Fast_Timing_Synergy.pdf

Trzaska_Fast_Timing_Synergy.pptx

13:20 → 13:40 Study of Time Characteristics of Beam Detectors obtained by two readout methods at 2015 BM@N run

Speaker: Geydar AGAKISHIEV

13:40 → 14:40 Lunch

14:40 → 15:00 The influence of strong magnetic field on interfacial phenomena

Speaker: Irena MALINOWSKA

Thu14.50.pdf

Thu14.50.ppt

15:00 → 15:20 "Evolutionary Algorithm for Particle Trajectory Reconstruction"

Speaker: Oskar WYSZYŃSKI

EvolutionaryTracker.pdf

15:20 → 15:30 Application of Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry in peptide analysis

Speaker: Magdalena WIERZBICKA

magdalena_wierzbicka.pdf

15:30 → 15:40 Fission of U-238 and Pu-239 production in subcritical assembly

Speaker: Magdalena GRAB

Fission of U-238 and Pu-239 production in subcritical.pdf

Fission of U-238 and Pu-239 production in subcritical.pptx

15:40 → 16:00 Fixed Target program at STAR

Speaker: Łukasz KOZYRA

STAR Fixed Target Program.pdf

16:00 → 16:10 Positron annihilation in material research.

Speakers: Joanna Wańczyk, Marcin Birski

Spektrometria_anihilacji_pozyton_w.pdf

16:10 → 16:40 Coffee break

16:40 → 17:00 industrial controllers

Speaker: Jarosław Siemianowski

SIEMIANOWSKI NICA DAYS 2015.ppsx

17:00 → 17:15 Parallel Algorithms for GEM Detectors Systems Postprocessing

The presentation is on optimizing the postprocessing algorithms in the GEM detectors systems.

Speaker: Rafal Krawczyk (Warsaw University of Technology)

NICA_KRAWCZYK.pdf

NICA_KRAWCZYK.pptx

17:15 → 17:30 Low temperature RTD calibration system

The design of a calibration system for resistance temperature detectors (RTD) will be presented. The project was optimized for high accuracy calibration in cryogenic temperatures. The system is based on the 18-bit ADC with an internal MUX and 35 input channels for the calibrated resistors and referential sources. The project will be used in the preparation of the NICA temperature monitoring system.

Speaker: Kamil Kozłowski (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)

prezz.pdf

prezz.pptx

17:40 → 17:50 SANS method for investigation surfactants water systems

Speaker: Filip RATKOWSKI

prezentacja NICA filip.pdf

17:50 → 19:00 Open Time

19:00 → 22:00 Concert "Great Music in the Small Hall"

Friday 6 November

08:00 → 09:00 Registration

09:00 → 09:30 Presentation of DC solution and Case Study

Speaker: Wojciech LIS

09:30 → 09:55 Status of the CBM experiment at FAIR and its Silicon Tracking System

The Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment at the FACILITY for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) will explore the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter in the regions of highest net-baryonic densities and moderate temperatures. The high beam intensities that will be delivered from FAIR's SIS-100 heavy-ion synchrotron and possible upgrades will enable addressing several physics cases: The equation-of-state at neutron star core densities, the onset of chiral symmetry restoration at high $\mu_B$, the identification of a deconfinement phase transition at high $\mu_B$, the search for new phases of strongly-interacting matter, and the investigation of strange matter. The related observables include collective flow of hadrons, particle production at threshold energies, in-medium modifications of hadrons, and the production of dileptons, strangeness and charm. The experiment will be based on detector systems capable of the high interaction and charged-particle rates that are pre-requisites of the programme, and include silicon tracking and micro-vertex detection, electron and muon measurement, hadron identification, and electromagnetic and zero-degree calorimentry. As most of the observables require full detector read-out for trigger decisions, the CBM experiment is based on delivering streamed detector data to a computing farm where on-line event reconstruction is performed based on time-stamped detector information. The presentation will overview the physics cases of the CBM experiment and the detector concept chosen. The status of the technical developments and the timeline for the experiment to take shape will be discussed. The Silicon Tracking System will be addressed in somewhat more detail as the development and construction of this detector is done in close collaboration of GSI and JINR.

Speaker: Johann Heuser (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

J.Heuser_CBM_NICA2015_Warsaw.pdf

J.Heuser_CBM_NICA2015_Warsaw.pptx

09:55 → 10:15 Superconducting systems in medicine

In present time there are lot of devices based on strong magnetic field. Creation of strong magnetic field is possible thanks to superconductors which more often are replacing classic electromagnets. Strong magnetic fields are used in medical diagnostics and testing such as nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Construction of NMR device and picture formation. Next application of strong magnetic fields in medicine is hadrontherapy. Theoretical principle of the method, construction of the devices for hadron therapy was presented. Comparison of the hadrontherapy with other radiotherapies was presented. In this presentation I'm going to talk about application of superconducting systems in medicine.

Speaker: Krzysztof MALINOWSKI (Facult of Mechanical Engineering)

Application of superconductors in medicine1.pdf

Application of superconductors in medicine1.ppt

10:15 → 10:35 Coopetition on universities and scientific institutions

Modern organizations, both business and scientific institutions are facing challenges of a competitive market. Taking actions of competition is not characteristic only for business organizations. Increasingly it also applies to research units. Universities and scientific organizations understand that their strengths and long-term development (including their competitive, market position) depends on the willingness and desire to cooperate. We are noticing here a classic coopetence relationships, that is understood as undertaking joint actions by competing units. The article presents the groups of factors particularly relevant to action of cooperation between universities. Additionally here will be indicated the factors that distinguish the scientific institutions from business units. These differences indicate the specific of scientific institution’s functioning. It also underlines the necessity to create other, tailored to the needs of academic institutions, models of management and creating their relationship with the environment.

Speaker: Olga Sobolewska (Warsaw University of Technology)

NICA_OSobolewska.pdf

NICA_OSobolewska.pptx

10:35 → 11:20 Coffee break

11:20 → 11:40 MTCA-based mixed signal data acquisition system for physics

Speaker: Gzregorz Kasprowicz

G.Kasprowicz NICA_DAYS 2015.pptx

11:40 → 12:00 Gas control system for MPD Time-Of-Flight detector

1. Short presentation of detectors gropus in MPD. 2. Time-of-Flight detector as a part of Particle Identification system. 3. Construction of TOF detector. 4. Gas system: how it works, gas mixture parameters etc. 5. Slow control system. 6. Summary.

Speaker: Daniel Dabrowski (Warsaw University of Technology)

DD_NICA_Days_2015_TOF_Gas_System.pdf

DD_NICA_Days_2015_TOF_Gas_System.pptx

12:00 → 12:20 Detector Control System slow control condition database

Speaker: Krzysztof DYNOWSKI

Nica2015-KDynowski.pdf

12:20 → 12:40 Monitoring network connections using RFID technology in Slow Control system.

Speaker: Karol BOLEK

Karol_bolek.pdf

12:40 → 13:00 Presentation

Speaker: Patryk Marcola

presentation.pdf

13:00 → 14:00 Luch

14:00 → 14:20 Possible application of vitrual reality in visualisations of Pb-Pb collisions

Speakers: Julian Myrcha, Przemysław Rokita

J.Myrcha.pdf

14:20 → 14:40 New Educational Projects of JINR for University Students

Speaker: Yury Panebrattsev

WARSAW.pdf

WARSAW.pptx

14:40 → 15:05 Vortical structures and strange hyperon polarization in heavy-ion collisions at NICA

We study vorticity and hydrodynamic helicity in semi-peripheral heavy-ion collisions using the kinetic model of Quark-Gluon Strings. The angular momentum, which is a source of P-odd observables, is preserved with a good accuracy. We observe formation of the specific toroidal structures of the vorticity field. Their existence, accompanied by the strange chemical potential, is mirrored in the polarization of hyperons of the percent order.

Speaker: Alexander Sorin (Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (Dubna))

15:05 → 15:10 Welcome

Speaker: Victor Matveev

15:10 → 15:20 Scientific activities of JINR

Speaker: Richard Lednicky

15:25 → 15:50 Coffee Break

15:50 → 18:15 Common session with WPCF

15:50 Rapidity fluctuations in the initial state

Speaker: Wojciech Broniowski (IFJ PAN)

16:20 Thermalization, evolution and observables in integrated hydrokinetic model of A+A collisions

Speaker: Yuriy Sinyukov (Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics)

Sinyukov-NICA-2015-v2.pdf

16:45 Study QCD Phase Structure in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions

Speaker: Nu Xu (LBNL)

nxu_NICA_Day_Nov2015.pdf

nxu_NICA_Day_Nov2015.pptx

17:15 Recent results from the NA61/SHINE programme on strong interactions

Speaker: Marek Gazdzicki (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ. (DE))

Gazdzicki_NICA_SEMINAR_WARSAW_2015.pdf

17:45 Searching for perfect fluid in ultra-cold fermionic gas

Speaker: Gabriel Wlazlowski

talk.pdf

18:15 → 19:00 Opening time

19:00 → 23:25 Gala Dinner

Saturday 7 November

08:00 → 09:00 Registration

09:00 → 09:35 Bogolubov - Infeld

Convener: Prof. BUDZYŃSKI Mieczysław (Uniwersytet Marii Curie Skłodowskiej)

NICA days 2015.pdf

NICA days 2015.ppt

Współprca naukowa - PW.docx

Współprca naukowa - PW.pdf

09:35 → 10:10 Bogolubov - Infeld: Bogolubov - Infeld jak z niego skorzystać.

Convener: Dr Chmielowski Władysław (Uniwersytet Marii Curie Skłodowskiej)

NICA days 2015.pdf

NICA days 2015.ppt

Współprca naukowa - PW.docx

Współprca naukowa - PW.pdf

10:10 → 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 → 12:35 session: Engineering

10:30 Superconducting magnetic systems in generation of high and low gradient magnetic fields

Abstract The article presents capabilities of magnetic systems in generation of magnetic fields with highly different gradients. The presented material describes the results of constructing of a magnetic source DECRISEsc with large field gradient together with results of development of system generating highly uniform magnetic field required for electron system cooling of ions. Unique construction of the unclosed superconducting shield enables Improvement of homogeneity of the Magnetic Field in Magnetic Systems generation of a few orders of magnitude higher than currently generated.

Speaker: Dr Henryk Malinowski (JINR)

Prezentacja1_NICADAYS2015x.pdf

Prezentacja1_NICADAYS2015x.ppt

10:55 Przemysłowa aparatura...

11:15 Cooling system for TOF electronic at BM@N experiment.//System chłodzenia elektroniki dla poddetektora TOF w eksperymencie BM@N.

Presented will be prototype of control and measure temperature system for BM@N detector. It can be used in the future for MPD experiment too. The project is based on LUMEL electronic devices. The system contains server www, ADC and thermometers. The project will be used in the preparation of the NICA temperature monitoring system. Zaprezentowany zostanie prototyp systemu do kontroli i pomiaru temperatury w detektorze BM@N. W przyszłości prototyp ten może zostać użyty także do eksperymentu MPD. Projekt bazuje na elektronicznych urządzeniach firmy LUMEL. System ten skłąda się z serwera www, przetwornikach ADC oraz termometrach. Projekt będzie użyteczny dla przygotowania systemuy do monitoringu temperatury w NICA.

Speaker: Mr Krystian Rosłon (inż)

Krystian_Roslon_151107.pdf

Krystian_Roslon_151107.pptx

12:35 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 14:05 Ogólnopolska Konferencja Kół Naukowych CAMAC

Speaker: Michał Miller

14:05 → 14:25 EqDb Database for Slow Control System

Speaker: Tomasz Traczyk

14:25 → 14:45 Modular sysytem Slow Control

Speaker: Marek Peryt