The MexNICA Collaboration in the MPD-NICA Experiment at JINR: Experimental and Theoretical Achievements

The MexNICA Collaboration coordinates the participation of Mexican scientists, engineers, postdoctoral researchers, and students in the Multi-Purpose Detector experiment at the Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia. Established in 2016, the collaboration brings together five Mexican institutions whose contributions span detector development, phenomenological studies, Monte Carlo simulations, and theoretical investigations of strongly interacting matter at finite baryon density. This article summarizes the main achievements of MexNICA, including the development of the miniBeBe trigger detector, phenomenological predictions for observables in the baryon-rich region of the QCD phase diagram accessible at NICA energies, and theoretical advances based on lattice-inspired effective approaches and QCD-motivated models.