Selected Topics of the Physical Programme for the First Stage of the NICA SPD

What is it about?

The NICA collider project at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Researches in Dubna will have a capability to study hadronic processes caused by collisions of polarized and unpolarized proton and deuteron beams with usage of the Spin Physics Detector. Several possible studies at the first stage of this project corresponding to an effective nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy in the range of √ sNN = 3 − 10 GeV are briefly reviewed.

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Why is it important?

We show what kind of physics can be studied at SPD NICA at lower energies accessible at the fisrt stage of this epxreiment. This is mainly study of the properties of the so called transition region from hadron degrees of freeom in nuclear inetractions to quarks and gluons