THE STATUS OF THE MANUFACTURING AND TESTING OF SC MAGNETS FOR THE NICA PROJECT AND SIS100 SYNCHROTRON

NICA is an accelerator collider complex under construction at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna. The facility is aimed at providing collider experiments with heavy ions up to Gold with a center of mass energy from 4 to 11 GeV/u and an average luminosity up to 1 center dot 10(27) cm(-2) s(-1) for Au79+. The collisions of polarized deuterons are also foreseen. The facility includes two injector chains, a new superconducting booster synchrotron, the existing 6 GeV per nucleon superconducting synchrotron Nuclotron, and a new superconducting collider consisting of two rings, each 503 m in circumference. The planned FAIR synchrotron SIS100 has to deliver high intensity beams in GSI, Darmstadt. This machine will use fast-cycling 4 T/s, 2 T magnets. The NICA booster synchrotron, the NICA collider and the heavy ion synchrotron SIS100 are based on iron-dominated "window frame"- type magnets with a hollow superconductor winding analogous to the Nuclotron magnet. The progress of work on the manufacturing and testing of the magnets is discussed. The status of the facility for serial test of superconducting magnets for the NICA project and the SIS100 superconducting quadrupole and corrector magnets are described.