The MexNICA Collaboration in the MPD-NICA Experiment at JINR: Experimental and Theoretical Achievements

TL;DR

The MexNICA Collaboration at JINR's MPD-NICA experiment has achieved significant progress in detector development, phenomenological studies of the QCD phase diagram, and theoretical modeling using lattice QCD and effective theories.

Contribution

This paper presents the first comprehensive summary of MexNICA's detector innovations, phenomenological insights, and theoretical advances in the context of the NICA experiment.

Findings

Development of the miniBeBe trigger detector

Phenomenological studies of the baryon-rich QCD region

Advances in lattice QCD and effective models

Abstract

The MexNICA Collaboration coordinates the activities of Mexican scientists, engineers, postdoctoral fellows and students in the Multi-Purpose Detector experiment at the Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia. Established in 2016, the collaboration brings together five Mexican institutions whose contributions span detector development as well phenomenological and theoretical studies, including modeling by means of Monte Carlo simulations. This work summarizes the main achievements of MexNICA, consisting of the development of the miniBeBe trigger detector as well of results of phenomenological investigations of the baryon-rich region in the QCD phase diagram accessible at NICA energies, and theoretical advances based on lattice QCD and effective models.