12th Collaboration Meeting (13-17 May, 2024)

In accordance with the plan for international cooperation, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, together with Satbayev University, Almaty, organized the 12th Collaboration meeting of the BM@N experiment at the NICA facility from 13 to 17 May 2024 in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

The focus of the meeting was on the reconstruction and identification of strange particles, analysis of event topologies of Xe+Cs interactions collected during the xenon physics run of the BM@N experiment. The physics analysis of previously collected argon-nucleus interactions was reviewed.

The physics program and experimental set-up in the next BM@N experimental run were discussed.

Organizational issues of the BM@N Collaboration were discussed at a separate IB Meeting on 13 May.

NICA days 2024 took place on 17 May. The workshop aimed to briefly review the status of the NICA project and to discuss the physics mission and the programs of the NICA experimental setups (BM@N, MPD and SPD experiments) as well as the applied research planned at the facility (project ARIADNA). The NICA days workshop served to advertise the project with the goal to attract new collaborators from the scientific and engineering communities, young scientists and students in particular.

To find reports and videos of the talks, please follow the link: https://indico.jinr.ru/event/4395/.