Prospects for Studying the Production of Hyperons and Hypernuclei in the MPD Experiment at the NICA Accelerator Complex

Collisions of relativistic nuclei provide a unique opportunity to study the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter. New data on the yields, spectra, and lifetimes of hyperons and hypernuclei will allow many aspects of the dynamics of nucleus–nucleus collisions to be revealed due to their dependence on the nature of phase transformations and the equation of state in the medium, as well as on the type of hyperon–nucleon potentials at high densities. The study of the production of strange particles will play a significant role in the physics program of the MPD experiment at the NICA accelerator complex, therefore, studying the detector characteristics for the reconstruction of hyperons and hypernuclei is an important task at the current stage of the project implementation.