Bound-free Pair Production Mechanism at the NICA Accelerator Complex

In this work, the bound-free pair production (BFPP) cross-section calculations are done for NICA collider. In the BFPP mechanisms, after free pair production process, free electron is captured by one of the ions. This causes the decrement of the ion from the beam, and also diminish the intensity of the beam and changes the beam lifetime. The BFPP cross-section calculations are done for the \(p\)–Au and \(p\)–Bi collisions for NICA collider which are performed in the range of a few mbarns. In this work, we used the lowest-order perturbation theory and our calculations are done in the QED framework.