sPHENIX is a new detector at RHIC.

["Frantz, Justin" <frantz AT ohio.edu>]

Hi all,

After some discussion with the higher ups, I will submit the following 
abstract for the Winter Workshop of Nuclear Dynamics 2018 for which the 
deadline is TONIGHT-- please let me know if anyone has any suggested 
improvements:

Exciting Jet And Prompt Photon Physics Opportunities Provided by sPHENIX at 
RHIC.

The sPHENIX detector currently under construction at the Relativistic Heavy 
Ion Collider (RHIC) will allow new kinematic reach and new measurement 
capabilities at RHIC for jet-related measurements.   Precise tracking and 
superb hadronic and electromagnetic calorimetry will be allow for new 
observables that will be directly comparable to similar data at the  Large 
Hadron Collider (LHC) and allow us to observe how jets with the same 
properties respond to a QGP created with different initial conditions.   The 
kinds of jet observables sPHENIX will measure will be discussed in this talk, 
such as those focusing the jet fragmentation pattern and especially those 
involving prompt photons.    Also, the properties of the relevant sPHENIX 
detectors, especially calorimetry, as they are being constructed, and their 
implications for performance, determined through informative sPHENIX 
simulations, will be explained for jet and photon-jet observables.

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-Justin

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Justin Frantz, Ph. D.  
RHIC/AGS User Executive Committee
Brookhaven National Lab
Associate Professor
Ohio University Dept. Of Physics and Astronomy   
frantz AT ohio.edu   
646-228-2539