Non-Liouvillian carbon nucleus accumulation at the ITEP storage accelerator facility

Physical start-up of the new heavy-ion storage accelerator facility has been successfully performed at the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics. Carbon nuclei with an energy of 200 MeV/n are accumulated in the storage ring of the 10-GeV U-10 proton synchrotron, which is converted into an ion accumulator. The accumulation is accomplished using solid-target charge exchange of C⁴⁺ ions that are accelerated in the UK booster synchrotron. Thus, non-Liouvillian carbon nucleus accumulation is accomplished experimentally. Our immediate goal is to raise the amount of accumulated nuclei to 2 × 10¹², which corresponds to the possibilities of the available facility configuration.