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The future MPD experiment at the NICA collider is going to explore the dense hadronic matter produced in heavy-ion collisions in the energy range 4-11 GeV and search for signs of the phase transition to the deconfined quark-gluon plasma state. Measurements of soft thermal photon spectra via photon conversions can significantly extend the physics program of the MPD experiment, allowing one to probe the temperature of the medium created in heavy-ion collisions at NICA energies. In this contribution, feasibility studies on the thermal photon measurements with the conversion method in the projected MPD setup will be presented.
This work was funded by RFBR according to the research project No.18-02-40045 and partially supported by the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI in the framework of the Russian Academic Excellence Project (contract No.02.a03.21.0005, 27.08.2013).
