Heavy-Ion Linac (HILAc), conceived in 2016 by the JINR-Bevatech collaboration, accelerates heavy gold ions up to the energy of 3.2 MeV/n with beam intensity of 2×109 particles per pulse, and a repetition rate of 10 Hz.
The collider is made of two identical 503-meter long storage rings with MPD and SPD placed in the middle of the opposite straight sections.
Upon passing the section bringing them together, the particle bunches in the upper and lower rings travel along a common straight trajectory toward each other to collide at MPD and SPD.
MPD facility is designed to study hadron matter at high temperatures and densities, where nucleons "melt" releasing their constituent quarks and gluons and forming a new state, the quark-gluon plasma.
[5] SPD facility allows to collide the polarized beams of protons and deuterons to study the particle spin physics.