Participating Countries and International Organizations:
Armenia, Bulgaria, CERN, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Japan, India, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, USA, Uzbekistan. 

Scientific Programme:
The study of new phenomena in multiple particles productions associated with the manifestation of the quark and gluon degrees of freedom in the interaction of relativistic nuclei. The study of nucleon and nuclear interactions in the VBLHEP accelerator complex, CERN SPS. Energy scan of interactions of nuclei at energies 20-158 GeV/nucleon and to study their dependence on the atomic number of nuclei. The searching of the critical point on the phase diagram of nuclear matter on the NA61(SPS, CERN). Study of hadron production in hadron-nucleus interactions. The use of obtained data for precision calculations of spectra and fluxes in accelerator neutrino experiments to study neutrino oscillations. The study of claster structures in light stable and radioactive nuclei in the relativistic dissociation. A study of the multiple fragmentation of heavy nuclei. Experimental and theoretical study of deep subthreshold, cumulative processes, the formation of hadrons and antimatter in the transition energy region. A study of the behaviour of elementary particles, nucleon resonances and nucleon fluctuations in nuclear matter on the spectrometer "SCAN". preparation of proposaps of experiments at the accelerator complex of VBLHEP on the extracted beams of the Nuclotron and NICA Collider. Study of the short range nucleon-nucleo correlations and cluster structure of the nuclei using the beams of ions, polarized protons and deuterons at the internal target of Nuclotron in the framework of DSS and SCAN-3 projects. 

Expected main results in 2018:

• The continuation of experiments at the internal target of the Nuclotron. Preparation and execution of the experiments at the extracted beam of the Nuclotron. The development of simulations and processing of experimental data. 
  
  
• processing and analysis of experimental data obtained at the instalation NA61/SHINE (SPS, CERN) for p+p, Be+Be, Ar+Sc, Pb+Pb collisions. preparation and implementation of experimental studies on the relativistic beam of lead nuclei. Study of the formation of anti-nuclei in the Ar+Ca and Xe+La collisions. 
  
  
• Configure and test three-arms magnetic spectrometer SCAN. The modernization of electronics for data taken. The collection and analysis of experimental data. 
  
  
• Upgrading the trigger system for the PHASE setup. Analysis of experimental data within the statistical and dynamic models. The perparation of a new project. 
  
  
• Irradiation of emulsions with secondary beams of radioactive isotope ¹¹C and ¹¹B, ¹⁰B, ¹²C. Irradiation with heavy nuclei. Processing of irradiated emulsions in beams of relativistic nuclei. 
  
  
• The analysis of data from bubble chambers to search and investigate new phenomena. Extension of the experimental database in the field of relativistic nuclear physics. 
  
  
• Study of deep subthreshold processes at MARUSYA setup. Development of electromagnetic arm of MARUSYA-FLINT setup. Testing of electromagnetic calorimeter of MARUSYA-FLINT setup. Development, creation and testing of neutron detector. 
  
  
• Preparation of technical project for the measurement of the luminosity at the Collider NICA. 
  
  
• Obtainment first results on the structure of short-range nucleon-nucleon correlations in beams of carbon, argon and krypton at the internal target of the Nuclotron.