Russian scientists are in the process of building their own version of the Large Hadron Collider (LHP). Efforts to implement what is already internationally known as the NICA project are in full swing in Dubna outside Moscow, where a session of the Russian government’s Commission on High Technology and Innovation was held earlier on Wednesday.

Speaking at the session, scientists from the Dubna Joint Institute for Nuclear Research explained that the NICA collider will consist of several accelerators, with one of them, the superconductive cryogenic nuclotron, already activated.
There, the nucleus particles of gold molecules will be collided and accelerated towards each other at tremendous speed, in a process that scientists say will help them observe the transition of very dense nuclear material into a new state. The basis for the NICA collider’s design was the synchrophasotron that was built in Dubna back in the 1950s and became the world’s largest particle accelerator at the time.