Speaker
Description
V. Riabov for the MPD Collaboration
The Multi-Purpose Detector (MPD) is a heavy-ion collider experiments at Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility (NICA), which is designed to study heavy-ion collisions in the energy range sqrt{s_NN}=4-11 GeV. Physics objectives of the MPD experiment are to search for new phenomena in the baryon-rich region of the QCD phase diagram, where a phase transition of the first order and existence of the critical end point are predicted. The competitive advantages of the MPD experiment at NICA are the high event rate, possibility of the system size scan, uniform acceptance across different collision systems and energies. Commissioning of the MPD detector and the first data taking are expected to take place in 2025. This report reviews current status of the MPD detector and its physics program, with emphasis on the physics measurements feasible with the first beams.
