sPHENIX cold QCD topical group

[Itaru Nakagawa <itaru AT riken.jp>]

Dear all,

 I was invited from the New Trends in High-Energy and Low-x Physics Conference. I would like to report about the spin program of sPHENIX. Here is the draft abstract. Let me know if there is any comments/suggestions.

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Spin Physics Program of New Generation sPHENIX Detector at RHIC

     The sPHENIX experiment is a new experiment and its new detector of
    Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in the Brookhaven National
    Laboratory. It is an upgrade of the PHENIX experiment. The sPHENIX
    is to complete the scientific mission of RHIC in study of QGP and
    the spin structure of the proton. The sPHENIX detector will provide
    precision vertexing, tracking and electromagnetic and hadronic
    calorimetry in the central pseudorapidity region |η| < 1.1, with
    full azimuth coverage, at the full RHIC collision rate, delivering
    unprecedented data sets for hard probe tomography measurements at
    RHIC. 
 The sPHENIX was commissioned using Au+Au collision in 2023,
    and currently taking physics data with transversely polarized
    proton+proton collisions at the the collision energy of 200 GeV. The
    status of detector commissioning and possible physics targets of the
    proton spin program using the sPHENIX detector will be discussed.

Best regards,

-itaru