STATUS OF THE DESIGN AND TEST OF SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS FOR THE NICA PROJECT

Abstract

NICA is a new accelerator complex being under design and construction at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna. The actual design and the main characteristics of superconducting magnets for the NICA booster and collider are given. The magnets are based on a cold window frame iron yoke and a single-layered superconducting winding made from a hollow NbTi composite superconductor cable cooled with the forced two-phase helium flow. The first results of cryogenic tests of the magnets for the NICA project are presented.