The NICA collider (Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAgency) is being created at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research and is designed to conduct experiments that will help recreate the conditions that existed in the Universe immediately after the Big Bang. To study such processes we need high-sensitivity detector systems that can detect the smallest particles produced when nuclei collide at high speeds.
The developers of the system studied in detail the world experience in creating detectors, including those used in the Large Hadron Collider, and adapted these technologies to the needs of Russian research. The new detector works on the principle of pixel matrices in cameras that record visible light, but in this case the system detects nuclear radiation.
The detector consists of many layers covered with pixels on silicon platforms. This allows you to track particle trajectories with high accuracy.
Source: Ferra
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