Abstract
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.
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This manuscript has no associated data or the data will not be deposited. [Authors’ comment: Since the experiment is still at its assembly stage, there is not yet any data available and the studies hereby shown are only at the simulation level.]
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Acknowledgements
We are very grateful to the following agencies and organizations for financial support of the MPD Experiment and the MPD members: Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) National Key R &D Program of China (Grant No. 2020YFE0202000), National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Ministry of Education (MOE); The Czech Republic – Grants “3+3” and the Grants of the Plenipotentiary of the Government of the Czech Republic in JINR as well as by MEYS Grant LTT18021; The Mexican Collaboration (MexNICA) thankfully acknowledges support from UNAM-DGAPA-PAPIIT grant number IG100322, from the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT), grant numbers A1-S-7655 and A1-S16215, the permission to use computer resources, the technical advise and the support provided by the Laboratorio Nacional de Supercómputo del Sureste de México (LNS), a member of the CONACyT national network of laboratories, with resources from grant number 201701035C and the BUAP Medical Physics and Elementary Particles Labs; Poland – National Science Centre (NCN) grants 2016/23/B/ST2/00692 and 2020/39/O/ST2/00277, Ministry of Science and Higher Education, The Polish Plenipotentiary for JINR, WUT ID-UB; The Russian Federation – Russian Foundation for Basic Research under grant 18-02-40084/19, 18-02-40137/19, 18-02-40065/19, 18-02-40054/19, 18-02-40056/19, 18-02-40079/19, 18-02-40085/19, 18-02-40045/19, 18-02-40038/19, 18-02-40086/19, 18-02-40051/51, 18-02-40044/19, 18-02-40037/19, 18-02-40060/19. NRNU MEPhI acknowledges support from Program Priority 2030 and by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Project ”Fundamental properties of elementary particles and cosmology” No 0723-2020-0041; ANID-Millennium Program-ICN2019_044, Chile. We would like to thank A. Andronic for preparing the figure which we show as Fig. 2, K. Redlich for Fig. 3 and B. Mohanty for preparing the figure version that we show as Fig. 7.