MEXnICA, Mexican group in the MPD-NICA experiment at JINR

• Published in: Journal of physics. Conference series Vol. 912; no. 1; pp. 12016 - 12022
• Main Author: Rodríguez Cahuantzi, M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 01.10.2017
• Subjects: Charged particles; Heavy ions; Luminosity; Nuclear research; Phase diagrams; Physics; Radiation counters; Sensors
• ISSN: 1742-6588; 1742-6596
• DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/912/1/012016

The Nuclotron Ion Collider fAcility (NICA) accelerator complex is currently under construction at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) laboratory located in the city of Dubna in the Russian Federation. The main goal of NICA is to collide heavy ion nuclei to study the properties of the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter at high baryon density. In this accelerator complex, two big particle detectors are planned to be installed: Spin Physics Detector (SPD) and Multi-Purpose Detector (MPD). At the design luminosity, the event rate in the MPD interaction region is about 6 kHz; the total charged particle multiplicity would exceeds 1000 in the most central Au+Au collisions at sNN=11GeV. Since the middle of 2016 a group of researchers and students from Mexican institutions was formed (MEXnICA). The main goal of the MEXnICA group is to collaborate in the experimental efforts of MPD-NICA proposing a BEam-BEam counter detector which we called BEBE. In this written general aspects of MPD-NICA detector and BEBE are discussed. This material was shown in a contributed talk given at the XXXI Annual Meeting of the Mexican Division of Particles and Fields held in the Physics Department of CINVESTAV located in Mexico City during the last week of May 2017.