sPHENIX is a new detector at RHIC.

[Nils Feege <nils.feege AT stonybrook.edu>]

Hi John,

I agree, the abstract is very nice and to the point.

Along the lines of Ralf's comment about the audience, Id' suggest to

- spell out Quark Gluon Plasma and mention early that RHIC is colliding heavy ions:

"The 2015 US Nuclear Physics Long Range Plan called for a state-of-the-art jet and upsilon detector at RHIC, called sPHENIX, to study the microscopic nature of the Quark Gluon Plasma in heavy ion collisions. This will complement similar studies at the CERN LHC. [...]"

- add a brief statement about the EIC physics program, for example:

"[...] In the same Long Range Plan, an Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) was recommended as the highest priority for future construction. The EIC will allow for precision measurements of the partonic and spin structure of hadronic and nuclear matter using e+p and e+A collisions, respectively. [...]"

Best,

Nils

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 11:29 AM, John Lajoie <lajoie AT iastate.edu> wrote:

Hi Ralf,

    Many thanks for the comments and suggestions.  Full disclosure - I stole the nice opening sentences from Megan's QM abstract.

    I was thinking of bringing in the Cold QCD plan as well, but that is solely a RHIC Spin document, and when I tried to include it it seemed out of place with the mention of the long range plan - the two are just on different scales.

    A revised version of the abstract is included below.

John

The sPHENIX Detector:  The Future of Heavy-Ion Collisions at RHIC, and a Foundation for an EIC Detector

The 2015 US Nuclear Physics Long Range Plan called for a state-of-the-art jet and upsilon detector at RHIC, called sPHENIX, to study the microscopic nature of the QGP, complementing similar studies at the CERN LHC. The sPHENIX detector will provide precision vertexing, tracking and full calorimetry over pseudorapidity |eta| < 1.1 and full azimuth at the full RHIC collision rate, delivering unprecedented data sets for jet and upsilon measurements at RHIC.  In the same Long Range Plan, an Electron-Ion Collider was recommended as the highest priority for future construction.  In this talk I will present an overview of the sPHENIX detector design, expected construction and running schedule, and planned physics program. I will highlight the possibility to complement sPHENIX with additional forward instrumentation for spin polarized p+p/A physics and the potential to evolve sPHENIX into a spin polarized e+p/A detector at a future EIC.

On 1/29/2017 1:39 PM, Ralf Seidl wrote:

Hi John,

as always a very nice abstract. I like how you motivate it via the long 
range plan but please keep in mind that DIS is traditionally a HEP QCD 
conference with some nuclear cold-QCD extensions (low x and spin).
As such I would concentrate a little more on those aspects. At the very 
least I would suggest to exchange "pA" for "polarized p+p/A" and 
similarly for the EIC as "polarized ep and eA".

Cheers,

Ralf

On 2017/01/30 2:31, John Lajoie wrote:

Dear sPHENIX Collaborators:

    I have been asked to give a talk on sPHENIX at
DIS2017(http://www.ep.ph.bham.ac.uk/DIS2017/).  For this audience I want
to not only describe the current status of sPHENIX but to highlight its
potential to evolve on the road to the EIC.

    A draft abstract is listed below.  The abstract deadline is Jan
31st. Comments and suggestions are very welcome!

Regards,
John Lajoie

The sPHENIX Detector:  The Future of Heavy-Ion Collisions at RHIC, and a
Foundation for an EIC Detector

The 2015 US Nuclear Physics Long Range Plan called for a
state-of-the-art jet and upsilon detector at RHIC, called sPHENIX, to
study the microscopic nature of the QGP, complementing similar studies
at the CERN LHC. The sPHENIX detector will provide precision vertexing,
tracking and full calorimetry over pseudorapidity |eta| < 1.1 and full
azimuth at the full RHIC collision rate, delivering unprecedented data
sets for jet and upsilon measurements at RHIC.  In the same Long Range
Plan, an Electron-Ion Collider was recommended as the highest priority
for future construction.  In this talk I will present an overview of the
sPHENIX detector design, expected construction and running schedule, and
planned physics program. I will highlight the possibility to complement
sPHENIX with additional forward instrumentation for p+A physics and the
potential to evolve sPHENIX into an e+A detector at a future EIC.


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