Abstract. The new JINR project [1] is aimed at studies of highly excited nuclear matter created in nuclei by a high-energy deuteron beam. The matter is studied through observation of its particular decay products -pairs of energetic particles with a wide opening angle, close to 180 o . The new precision hybrid magnetic spectrometer SCAN-3 is to be built for detecting charged (π ± , K ± , p) and neutral (n) particles produced at the JINR Nuclotron internal target in dA collisions. One of the main and complex tasks is a study of low-energy ηA interaction and a search for η-bound states (η-mesic nuclei). Basic elements of the spectrometer and its characteristics are discussed in the article.
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