Speaker
Description
The Multi-Purpose Detector (MPD) is the dedicated heavy-ion experiment of the Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility (NICA), at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR). It will operate in the energy range of 4 GeV$\le \sqrt{s_{NN}} \le$ 11 GeV and will search for novel phenomena in the baryon-rich region of the QCD phase diagram. A primary objective of the MPD experiment is the search for the Critical End Point and the predicted
first-order phase transition, which could be key to understanding the nature of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions. The MPD experiment features a rich physics program that includes measurements of light hadron and (hyper)nuclei production, particle collective flow, correlations and fluctuations, the dielectron continuum, and in-medium modifications of vector meson properties in dense matter. This presentation will showcase selected results from physics feasibility studies for the MPD experiment based on simulated Bi+Bi collisions at \sqrt{s_{NN}}=9.2 GeV.