The Multi-Purpose Detector (MPD) is designed to study a hot and dense baryonic matter formed in heavy-ion collisions at SQRT(sNN)=4-11 GeV at the NICA accelerator complex (Dubna, Russia). Large-sized electromagnetic calorimeter (ECal) of the MPD spectrometer will provide precise spatial and energy measurements for photons and electrons in the central pseudorapidity region of |eta|<1.2. The Shashlyk-type sampling structure of the ECal is optimized for the photons energy range from about 40 MeV to 2-3 GeV. Fine segmentation and projective geometry of the calorimeter allow to deal with high multiplicity of secondary particles from Au-Au reactions. In this talk, we report on a design, a construction status and expected parameters of the ECal.
@article{arxiv.2002.07709,
title = {Electromagnetic Calorimeter for MPD Spectrometer at NICA Collider},
author = {A. Yu. Semenov and S. Bazylev and E. Belyaeva and M. Bhattacharjee and B. Dabrowska and D. Egorov and V. Golovatyuk and Yu. Krechetov and A. Shutov and V. Shutov and S. Sukhovarov and A. Terletskiy and I. Tyapkin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.07709},
year = {2020}
}