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Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility (NICA) is a new accelerator complex for heavy ions and polarized particles being under commissioning at JINR
The main goal 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. The MPD will study heavy-ion collisions in a wide energy range 2.4-11 GeV both in the collider and fixed-target regimes. By measuring a wide variety 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 review the status of the MPD facility and its physics program, with a focus on the first expected measurements.
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