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

Alfredo Raya·Mauricio Alvarado·Juan Anzúrez·Alejandro Ayala·Wolfgang Bietenholz·Salomón Borjas García·Eleazar Cuautle·Pedro E. García González·Irving Iván Gaspar Gregorio·Isabel Domínguez·Luis Alberto Hernández·Maribel Herrera·Israel Luna·Pablo Martínez-Torres·Emanuel Nolasco Gómez·Miguel Enrique Patiño·Manuel Elías Pech Dzul·Juan Carlos Ramírez Márquez·Mauricio Reyes Gutiérrez·Ulises Sáenz-Trujillo·Roberto Tapia Sánchez·María Elena Tejeda-Yeomans·Galileo Tinoco-Santillán·Carlos Rafael Vázquez Villamar
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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.

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Alfredo Raya, Mauricio Alvarado, Juan Anzúrez, Alejandro Ayala, Wolfgang Bietenholz, Salomón Borjas García, Eleazar Cuautle, Pedro E. García González, Irving Iván Gaspar Gregorio, Isabel Domínguez, Luis Alberto Hernández, Maribel Herrera, Israel Luna, Pablo Martínez-Torres, Emanuel Nolasco Gómez, Miguel Enrique Patiño, Manuel Elías Pech Dzul, Juan Carlos Ramírez Márquez, Mauricio Reyes Gutiérrez, Ulises Sáenz-Trujillo, Roberto Tapia Sánchez, María Elena Tejeda-Yeomans, Galileo Tinoco-Santillán, Carlos Rafael Vázquez Villamar. 2026-03-04. The MexNICA Collaboration in the MPD-NICA Experiment at JINR: Experimental and Theoretical Achievements. https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.04468

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