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The main objective of the Multi-Purpose Detector (MPD) at NICA is to study the structure of the QCD phase diagram at finite temperatures and high baryochemical potentials. To reach this goal, the MPD will study heavy-ion collisions in a wide energy range 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, 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.
