2022, Abgaryan, V., Acevedo Kado, R., Afanasyev, S. V., Alpatov, E., Atkin, E., Barbashina, N., Blaschke, D., Demanov, A., Golosov, O., Idrisov, D., Kashirin, E., Khyzhniak, E., Luong, V. B., Nigmatkulov, G., Parfenov, P., Samsonov, V., Selyuzhenkov, I., Strikhanov, M., Taranenko, A., Стриханов, Михаил Николаевич, Деманов, Александр Евгеньевич, Идрисов, Дим Маратович, Голосов, Олег Владимирович, Парфенов, Петр Евгеньевич, Тараненко, Аркадий Владимирович, Нигматкулов, Григорий Александрович, Алпатов, Егор Вячеславович, Аткин, Эдуард Викторович, Барбашина, Наталья Сергеевна

The Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility (NICA) is under construction at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), with commissioning of the facility expected in late 2022. The Multi-Purpose Detector (MPD) has been designed to operate at NICA and its components are currently in production. The detector is expected to be ready for data taking with the first beams from NICA. This document provides an overview of the landscape of the investigation of the QCD phase diagram in the region of maximum baryonic density, where NICA and MPD will be able to provide significant and unique input. It also provides a detailed description of the MPD set-up, including its various subsystems as well as its support and computing infrastructures. Selected performance studies for particular physics measurements at MPD are presented and discussed in the context of existing data and theoretical expectations. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Società Italiana di Fisica and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.

2024, Afanasiev, S., Atkin, E., Barbashina, N., Bolozdynya, A., Demanov, A., Galavanov, A., Golosov, O., Idrisov, D., Mamaev, M., Parfenov, P., Segal, I., Shumikhin, V., Sosnovtsev, V., Strikhanov, M., Taranenko, A., Troshin, V., Truttse, A., Zhavoronkova, I., Аткин, Эдуард Викторович, Барбашина, Наталья Сергеевна, Болоздыня, Александр Иванович, Деманов, Александр Евгеньевич, Галаванов, Андрей Владиевич, Голосов, Олег Владимирович, Идрисов, Дим Маратович, Мамаев, Михаил Валерьевич, Парфенов, Петр Евгеньевич, Сегаль, Илья Вадимович, Сосновцев, Валерий Витальевич, Стриханов, Михаил Николаевич, Тараненко, Аркадий Владимирович, Трошин, Валерий Владимирович, Трутце, Антон Андреевич, Жаворонкова, Ирина Андреевна

BM@N (Baryonic Matter at Nuclotron) is the first experiment operating and taking data at the Nuclotron/NICA ion-accelerating complex. The aim of the BM@N experiment is to study interactions of relativistic heavy-ion beams with fixed targets. We present a technical description of the BM@N spectrometer including all its subsystems.