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The anisotropic collective flow is one of the important observables sensitive to the transport properties of strongly interacting matter created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The performance of the multi-purpose detector (MPD) at NICA collider for elliptic flow measurements of identified charged pions, protons, $$K_{s}^{0}$$ and $$\Lambda $$ particles is studied with Monte Carlo simulations using collisions of Au + Au ions employing the UrQMD event generator. Different methods for flow measurements: event plane and direct cumulants are used to investigate the contribution of non-flow correlations and flow fluctuations.

Investigations of the quark–gluon matter properties at high net-baryon densities are the primary scientific mission of the MPD (multi-purpose detector) at the accelerator facility Nuclotron-NICA. In this work, the performance of the MPD detector for directed flow measurements is studied with Monte Carlo simulations of heavy-ion collisions at energies $$\sqrt {{{s}_{{NN}}}} $$ = 4–11 GeV.

The main goal of study the relativistic heavy-ion collisions at energies of accelerator facility Nuclotron-NICA ($$\sqrt {{{s}_{{NN}}}} = 2{\kern 1pt} - {\kern 1pt} 11$$ GeV) is to explore the QCD phase diagram in the region of high net baryon chemical potential and moderate temperatures. The anisotropic collective flow is one of the important observables sensitive to transport properties of strongly interacting matter created in such collisions. In this work, we will briefly discuss the anticipated physics results of anisotropic flow measurements at NICA energies.