sPHENIX is a new detector at RHIC.

[Christine Nattrass <saccharomyces.cerevisae AT gmail.com>]

Dear all

Please find my draft abstract for WWND attached.  It's due Feb. 1 but of 
course I'd like to get it submitted earlier if possible.

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Greetings,
Dr. Christine Nattrass
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Physics Department
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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Title:  sPHENIX - a new jet detector at RHIC

sPHENIX is a new state-of-the-art detector optimized for measurements of jets 
and quarkonia which will take advantage of increased luminosity available at 
the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC).  It comprises vertex tracking and 
hadronic and electromagnetic calorimetry.  This enables studies of jet 
structure, heavy flavor jets, and quarkonia at RHIC energies, the three 
pillars of the sPHENIX physics program.  These measurements will complement 
measurements at the LHC and enable determination of the properties of the 
medium to high precision, including its temperature dependence. This talk 
will discuss the detector design and key measurements enabled by the new 
detector, as well as the status of the project itself.