Feasibility to measure the properties of charged K*(892) mesons and Σ(1385) baryons in collisions of bismuth nuclei at an energy of 9.2 GeV in the NICA collider using the MPD experimental setup
We report results on a feasibility study of measuring the properties of K*(892)± and Σ(1385)± resonances in collisions of bismuth nuclei (Bi) at an energy of 9.2 GeV using the MPD detector at the NICA collider. The dependencies of the process’es key parameters on the transverse momentum for different intervals of centrality of Bi + Bi collisions were obtained in the rapidity range from –0.5 to +0.5 using model calculations. The evaluations of the mass resolution, detection efficiency of the MPD detector and the transverse momentum spectra for the K*(892)± and Σ(1385)± resonances were made. The sample size of Bi + Bi collision data that allowed the K*(892)± and Σ(1385)± resonances properties to be reconstructed with a sufficiently good accuracy to conduct a study of the K*(892)± and Σ(1385)± resonances production was estimated.