sPHENIX is a new detector at RHIC.

["Perepelitsa, Dennis" <dvp AT bnl.gov>]

Dear Caroline,

Thanks for the very nice draft talk!

Please find some suggestions below: 

slide 12: You might add “+ Tracker” to the “EMCal & HCal” sticky note in the upper right hand corner, since we increasingly believe that will be important for various aspects of the jet program, such as physics (fragmentation functions, jet shapes, etc.), reconstruction (particle flow-style jet reconstruction), or performance/calibration support (in situ track->calo energy scale, etc.)

slide 12: “jet-photon capability” -> perhaps “capability for measurement of jet yields, (sub)structure, and correlations” ? 

slide 12: Here, you might add “efficient trigger for high-statistics pp data reference!” or similar (this is an important difference with contemporary STAR measurements — I assume this is also why you stress the pp data on slide 15)

slide 13: The two bottom plots both show the jet v2, and so are somewhat redundant. For variety, perhaps it is better to replace the left-bottom one with the projection for inclusive jet z_g in Fig. 7.2 (right) of our BUR: https://indico.bnl.gov/event/7881/attachments/30176/47160/sPH-TRG-2020-001.pdf ? 

slide 18: Is there no Upsilon RpA projection one could add? Perhaps we did not re-make that for the BUR running scenarios.

slide 25: I know that you will have to be careful here, and will likely get important comments during your rehearsal. My single suggestion is that I’ve found it useful to make the following point — an EIC experiment which re-uses the barrel calorimeters that were formerly part of sPHENIX will: (1) likely attract a broad group of experienced university and lab scientists who are familiar with their operation and have worked together in the past to use them for experimental measurements, and (2) inherit a suite of closely validated simulation and reconstruction software. In my opinion, those are significant positives.

Dennis

On Oct 16, 2020, at 8:00 PM, Caroline Riedl <criedl AT illinois.edu> wrote:

Dear colleagues,

Here is the first version of the sPHENIX plenary talk I will give
Friday in a week at the AUM (20+5 min):
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://uofi.box.com/s/y835a3kmdc7d8rmcdpdgauk4gb2rt7ra__;!!P4SdNyxKAPE!R0UvV2D6lKYtTOn1PEELWNSeLiwsR8K20MA-uN10_Rim-Lz5e4MJsd5i7DmhwHwzxmwjkw$

Comments before (also after) my - not yet scheduled - practice talk
are highly welcome, in particular if I should have missed or
incompletely / wrongly described  essential information regarding your
physics topical group or your detector subsystem. I'd appreciate
recent photos of detector parts and/or even better people. Some slides
(towards the end) are not yet in their final shape.

Best regards,
Caroline

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Caroline Riedl - UIUC Research Assistant Professor
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Dennis V. Perepelitsa

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University of Colorado Boulder