Feasibility to measure the properties of identified charged hadrons in collisions of xenon nuclei with a fixed tungsten target at an energy of 2.5A GeV in the MPD detector at the NICA collider

Nuclear physics
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We report results on a feasibility study of measuring the properties of identified charged light hadrons (π± and K± mesons as well as protons) in collisions of Xe nuclei with a fixed tungsten target at an energy of 2.5A GeV using the MPD detector at the NICA collider. The evaluations of the purity of the reconstructed spectrum in the MPD detector, reconstruction efficiency of the spectra in the MPD detector and the transverse momentum spectra for the π±, K± mesons and protons were made. The evaluations were obtained depending on the transverse momentum for different intervals of centrality of Xe + W collisions in the central rapidity range using model calculations. We used an approach based on σ-parameterization of particle identification information in the MPD detector.