SCIENCE BRINGS NATIONS TOGETHER XVI MPD Collaboration Meeting

28 Oct 2025, 09:00 → 30 Oct 2025, 21:00 Europe/Moscow

Conference Hall (VBLHEP, JINR)

Vladimir Kekelidze (LHEP, JINR), Victor Riabov (PNPI)

XVI Collaboration Meeting of  the MPD Experiment at NICA

will be organized at the V.I.Veksler and A.M.Baldin Laboratory of High Energy Physics (VBLHEP) of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR)

on October 28-30, 2025

poster_16mpd.pdf

timetable.pdf

Tuesday 28 October

09:00 → 09:30 Bus (hotel Dubna <---> VBLHEP)

09:30 → 10:00 Registration

10:00 → 11:25 MPD General Reports: General Session 1 / Welcome

General Status reports for the MPD Collaboration

Convener: Arkadiy Taranenko (VBLHEP JINR)

10:00 Welcome and Opening

10:15 Construction and commissioning of the NICA Complex

Speaker: Evgeny Syresin (Joint Institute for Nuclear Researches)

Collider -Syresin2025-MPD-October-1.ppt

10:45 MPD Collaboration status

Speaker: Victor Riabov (PNPI)

MPD_CollStatus.pdf

11:05 Status of the MPD Integration

Speaker: Viacheslav Golovatyuk

MPD Status_f.pptx

11:25 → 11:35 Photo

11:35 → 12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 → 13:00 MPD General Reports: General Session 2

General Status reports for the MPD Collaboration

Convener: Victor Riabov (PNPI)

12:00 Status of the MPD Magnet

Speaker: Konstantin Mukhin (Joint Institut for Nuclear Research)

MPD XVI Status of MPD_28_10_2025 JINR.pptx

12:30 Status of the MPD software

Speaker: Oleg Rogachevsky (JINR)

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:30 MPD General Reports: General Session 3

General Status reports for the MPD Collaboration

14:00 Progress of ACTS implementation in MPDRoot

Speaker: Slavomir Hnatic (JINR)

14:30 → 17:00 Institutional Board

https://indico.jinr.ru/e/16mpd_ib

Convener: Alejandro Ayala (Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

14:30 IB meeting

Speaker: Alejandro Ayala (Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

17:00 → 17:20 Bus (hotel Dubna <---> VBLHEP)

Wednesday 29 October

09:00 → 09:20 Bus (hotel Dubna <---> VBLHEP)

09:20 → 11:00 Excursion to MPD Hall for local participants

Conveners: Konstantin Mukhin (Joint Institut for Nuclear Research), Viacheslav Golovatyuk (JINR)

11:00 → 13:05 MPD Detector, Software and Computing Status: Session 1

Status of MPD Construction

Convener: Oleg Rogachevsky (JINR)

11:00 TPC Assembling

Speaker: Sergey Movchan (JINR)

11:25 Status of the TOF

Speaker: Vadim Babkin (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)

Babkin_MPD_Collab_16-28-10-2025.pdf

11:50 Status of the ECal

Speaker: Anton Kostylev

12:15 TPC and ECAL cooling system: status

Speaker: Alexander Fedotov (INP BSU, Minsk)

12:40 TPC geomeries for NICA MPD simulations

Speaker: Alexander Bychkov (LHEP)

13:05 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:40 MPD Detector, Software and Computing Status: Session 2

Status of MPD Construction

Convener: Victor Riabov (PNPI)

14:00 Online TPC Data Handling based on Docker Compose

Speaker: Alexander Krylov

14:25 Status of the FFD

Speaker: Sergey Sedykh (JINR)

14:50 Status of the FHCAL

Speaker: Dmitry Finogeev (INR RAS)

15:15 Status of Mechanics for the beam pipe, FFD and ITS

Speaker: Denis Andreev

15:40 → 16:10 Сoffee break

16:10 → 18:20 MPD Detector, Software and Computing Status: Session 3

Status of MPD Construction

16:10 Status of the MPD DCS

Speaker: Sergei Sergeev (JINR)

16:30 Status of the Computer Simulations with MPD ITS in full configuration

Speaker: Ekaterina Tsapulina

16:50 High-performance computations for convective flow and electron drift analysis in the TPC MPD

Speaker: Мaria Medvedeva (JINR)

17:10 Modelling a laser calibration system and electron drift in the TPC gas volume

Speaker: Julia Shafarevich (BSU)

17:30 Development of a high-precision TPC thermometry system for the MPD experiment

Speaker: Nikita Bikmetov (Tomsk Polytechnic University)

17:50 Open discussions

18:20 → 18:40 Bus (hotel Dubna <---> VBLHEP)

19:00 → 22:00 Collaboration Dinner

Thursday 30 October

09:00 → 09:30 Bus (hotel Dubna <---> VBLHEP)

09:30 → 11:00 MPD Physics session: Physics 1

Convener: Victor Riabov (PNPI)

09:30 Hyperon polarization in heavy ion collisions - experimental highlights

Speaker: Zhenyu Chen (Shandong University)

10:00 Heavy ion collisions as a probe of QCD matter

Speaker: Huichao Song

10:30 Symmetry Energy from Observations of Neutron Stars and Particle Flows

Speaker: Evgeni Kolomeitsev (BLTP, JINR, Dubna)

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:50 MPD Physics session: Physics 2

Convener: Arkadiy Taranenko (VBLHEP JINR)

11:30 PWG-1 summary

Speaker: Peter Parfenov (JINR, NRNU MEPhI)

11:50 PWG2 Summary

Speaker: Viktar Kireyeu (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)

12:10 PWG3 Summary

Speaker: Arkadiy Taranenko (National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute))

12:30 PWG4 Summary

Speaker: Dmitri Peresunko (NRC "Kurchatov institute")

12:50 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 MPD Physics session: Physics 3

Convener: Dmitri Peresunko (NRC "Kurchatov institute")

14:00 Quantify collectivity via radial flow fluctuation

Speaker: Jiangyong Jia

14:30 Electromagnetic emission from strongly interacting hadronic and partonic matter

Speaker: Elena Bratkovskaya (GSI &amp; Uni. Frankfurt)

15:00 Forward upgrade for the MPD

Speaker: Evgeny Kryshen

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 18:00 MPD Physics session: Physics 4

Convener: Alexander Zinchenko (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)

16:00 STAR overview

Speaker: Yue Hang Leung

16:30 25 years of RHIC: lessons for NICA

Speaker: Arkadiy Taranenko (VBLHEP JINR)

17:00 Temperature Measurement of QGP via Thermal Dileptons, capabilities at NICA

Speaker: Sudhir Pandurang Rode (Joint Institute For Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia)

17:30 Open discussions

18:00 → 18:20 Bus (hotel Dubna <---> VBLHEP)