sPHENIX is a new detector at RHIC.

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

Hello Anders,

Thank you for posting your slides well ahead of time, and apologies for the late review (obviously we are just impacted by preparing for the Collaboration Meeting + Commissioning Workfest).

I think this is a great overview of the detector and collaboration, the physics, and the installation progress - a good fit for this “broader”, non-speciality conference.

I had just a few small comments for your consideration: 

Slide 9: This is definitely an amusing story, and we are lucky that it has a happy outcome (so it is fun to tell) - but if you found yourself pressed for time, it is probably not the most critical to include

Slide 11: actually, the magnet mapping is now completed, and we have early indications that the center of the magnet really does reach ~1.4 T

Slide 16: you could add “, First sPHENIX Physics” at the end of the 2023 bullet point 

Slide 24: I would just remove the  “sPHENIX: maybe enough statistical precision to see the difference” in small print - it comes off as defensive, and is probably too fine a point anyway 

Slide 25: “Anticipate clear measurement of U(3S) suppression” - here it may be worth being a little more careful. *If* the suppression of the Y(3S) is weaker than expected as has been suggested at the LHC, then we have a chance to see it.

Good luck with the talk! 

Dennis

On Dec 4, 2022, at 9:33 PM, Anders Knospe via sPHENIX-l <sphenix-l AT lists.bnl.gov> wrote:

Dear sPHENIX collaborators,

I have uploaded the first draft of my talk at the upcoming Miami 2022 Conference, titled "sPHENIX: the Next-Generation Heavy-Ion Detector at RHIC". The location is below; my presentation will be on Sunday, December 18. Thanks in advance for your comments.

https://indico.bnl.gov/event/17899/

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Dennis V. Perepelitsa
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University of Colorado Boulder
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