sPHENIX cold QCD topical group

[FRANCISCO Audrey <audrey.francisco AT cea.fr>]

Dear all,

I have been invited to talk about the “cold QCD program at sPHENIX” at the 
Joint 20th International Workshop on Hadron Structure and Spectroscopy and 
5th workshop on Correlations in Partonic and Hadronic Interactions.

Please find below the draft for my abstract and let me know if you have any 
suggestions. Itaru, I must say that I liked your abstract for the low-x 
conference and freely adapted parts of it. 

I apologise for the short notice, I got quite late the call for a “short” 
abstract and the deadline for submission is on Friday.

Cheers,
Audrey

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sPHENIX is a new experiment on the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at 
Brookhaven National Laboratory. Its goal is to complete the scientific 
mission of RHIC in the study of the QGP and the spin structure of the proton. 
The detector is designed to provide precision vertexing, tracking and 
electromagnetic and hadronic calorimetry in the central pseudorapidity region 
|η| < 1.1, with full azimuth coverage. It was commissioned in 2023 with Au-Au 
collisions and is currently taking physics data with transversely polarized 
proton+proton collisions at the collision energy of 200 GeV. The cold QCD 
program of sPHENIX will be discussed.