sPHENIX HCal discussion

[Shuhang Li <sl4859 AT columbia.edu>]

Hi all,

Here is my poster abstract for HCal cosmic simulation and calibration. Any comments and suggestions would be appreciated.

Title: Cosmic Muon Simulations and Absolute MIP Calibration for the sPHENIX Hadronic Calorimeters

The sPHENIX detector at BNL’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) will start data taking in 2023 and seeks to understand the microscopic properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma(QGP), by performing high precision measurements of jets and heavy flavor observables. Critical to full jet reconstruction is the sPHENIX calorimeter system, which needs to be properly calibrated prior to and during the data taking to measure the energy deposition of jets.This poster will discuss a GEANT4-based study that utilizes a cosmic muon generator with a realistic zenith angle and energy distribution to explore the possibility of calibrating the hadronic calorimeters (HCals) to the Minimum Ionizing Particle (MIP) scale using cosmic muon events when the full sPHENIX apparatus is in its data-taking position.

Thanks,

Shuhang