Status and initial physics performance studies of the MPD experiment at NICA

0559881 - ÚJF 2023 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Abgarian, V. - Acevedo Kado, R. - Afanasyev, S. V. - Agakishiev, G. N. - Chlad, Lukáš - Chudoba, Petr - Kugler, Andrej - Kvita, J. - Kushpil, Svetlana - Mašláň, M. - Nozka, L. - Prozorov, Alexandr P. - Rössler, T. … Total 478 authors
Status and initial physics performance studies of the MPD experiment at NICA.
European Physical Journal A. Roč. 58, č. 7 (2022), č. článku 140. ISSN 1434-6001. E-ISSN 1434-601X
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT LTT18021
Institutional support: RVO:61389005
Keywords : NICA facility * MPD collaboration * heavy ion collisions
OECD category: Nuclear physics
Impact factor: 2.6, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-022-00750-6

The Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility (NICA) is under construction at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), with commissioning of the facility expected in late 2022. The Multi-Purpose Detector (MPD) has been designed to operate at NICA and its components are currently in production. The detector is expected to be ready for data taking with the first beams from NICA. This document provides an overview of the landscape of the investigation of the QCD phase diagram in the region of maximum baryonic density, where NICA and MPD will be able to provide significant and unique input. It also provides a detailed description of the MPD set-up, including its various subsystems as well as its support and computing infrastructures. Selected performance studies for particular physics measurements at MPD are presented and discussed in the context of existing data and theoretical expectations.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0333010