sPHENIX is a new detector at RHIC.

[Gunther M Roland <rolandg AT mit.edu>]

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sPHENIX is a new detector proposed to explore the quark-gluon plasma formed in heavy ion collisions through measurements of jets and upsilons at RHIC. The experiment will feature a 1.5 Tesla superconducting solenoid magnet  which was formerly used by the BaBar experiment. sPHENIX is composed of a charged particle tracking system together with an electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters spanning full azimuthal coverage and 2 units of central pseudo-rapidity. The central part of its tracking system will consist of a state of the art Time Projection Chamber (TPC) with a GEM-based readout. The tracking system is designed to provide sufficient resolution (100 MeV/c^2 sigma at 9GeV/c^2 mass) to perform precision spectroscopy of the upsilon states. The current status of the ongoing TPC R&D and simulation studies will be presented.

Cheers,

Gunther

On Jul 8, 2016, at 10:02 AM, Veronica Canoa Roman <veronica.canoaroman AT stonybrook.edu> wrote:

sPHENIX is a new detector proposed to explore the quark-gluon plasma formed in heavy ion collisions through the measurements of jets and upsilons at RHIC. This experiment will feature a superconducting solenoid magnet capable of 1.5 Tesla which was formerly used by the BaBar experiment. sPHENIX is composed by a charged particle tracking system together with an electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters spanning full azimuthal coverage and 2 units of central pseudo-rapidity. The central part of its tracking system will consist of a state of the art Time Projection Chamber TPC with a GEM-based readout. The tracking system is designed to provide sufficient resolution (100 MeV/c^2 sigma at 9GeV/c^2 mass) to separate the upsilon states. The current status of the ongoing R&D and simulation studies performed will be presented here.