Speaker
Description
The main goal of the Multi-Purpose Detector (MPD) at NICA facility is to
study the structure of the QCD phase diagram at high baryochemical potential. To
achieve this goal, the MPD will study heavy-ion collisions in a wide energy range of
2.4-11 GeV. By measuring a wide range of signals from heavy-ion collisions, the
MPD will investigate various physics phenomena, including the equation of state
and critical behavior of the QCD matter, the properties of in-medium hadron
spectral function, the characteristics of hyperon-nucleon interactions, etc. In this
report, we will review the status of the MPD facility and its physics program, with a
focus on the first expected measurements to be performed for Bi+Bi and Xe+W
collisions in collider and fixed-target configurations, respectively.
