The Multi-Purpose Detector for NICA heavy-Ion Collider at JINR

Journal Article · Tue May 15 00:00:00 EDT 2012 · Physics of Atomic Nuclei

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063778812050201· OSTI ID:22043731

Rogachevsky, O. V., E-mail: [e-mail] ^[1]

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1. JINR, Veksler and Baldin Laboratory on High Energy Physics (Russian Federation)

The Multi-Purpose Detector (MPD) is designed to study heavy-ion collisions at the Nuclotron-based heavy Ion Collider fAcility (NICA) at JINR, Dubna. Its main components located inside a superconducting solenoid are a tracking system composed of a silicon microstrip vertex detector followed by a large volume time-projection chamber, a time-of-flight system for particle identification and a barrel electromagnetic calorimeter. A zero degree hadron calorimeter is designed specifically to measure the energy of spectators. In this paper, all parts of the apparatus are described and their tracking and particle identification parameters are discussed in some detail.

• OSTI ID: 22043731
• Journal Information: Physics of Atomic Nuclei, Vol. 75, Issue 5; Other Information: Copyright (c) 2012 Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1063-7788
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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SOLENOIDS
SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS
TIME PROJECTION CHAMBERS
TIME-OF-FLIGHT METHOD