Abstract
Heavy-ion collisions at NICA energies provide a unique opportunity for the study of the production of hypernuclei in dense baryonic matter. In this paper, the details of the reconstruction procedure for hypertritons with the MPD detector in Bi + Bi collisions at NICA energies are presented.
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This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, grant no. 19-42-04101. E. Bratkovskaya acknowledges support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation): grant BR 4000/7-1. Furthermore, J. Aichelin and E. Bratkovskaya acknowledge the support from STRONG-2020 “The strong interaction at the frontier of knowledge: fundamental research and applications” which received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 824093.
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Kolesnikov, V.I., Kireyeu, V.A., Mudrokh, A.A. et al. Monte Carlo Studies of the MPD Detector Performance for the Measurement of Hypertritons in Heavy-Ion Collisions at NICA Energies. Phys. Part. Nuclei Lett. 19, 46–53 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1547477122010071
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