sPHENIX is a new detector at RHIC.

[Gunther M Roland <rolandg AT mit.edu>]

Friends,

As you have seen (e.g., in the daily shift change meetings), there is a tremendous effort going on to look at and understand the first collision data with the various sub detectors and to look at the first correlations between detectors. There is incredible excitement and we are learning new things every hour. However:

Please, do not distribute these unapproved plots outside of sPHENIX at this time. I.e., no sharing on Facebook, Twitter etc etc, and do not use them in any talks, seminars yet. 

We are planning to use the General Meeting this Friday to approve the first batch of plots that can be used for public consumption (obviously not related to any physics results). This will follow the procedure outlined by Anne at the April 28 General Meeting: https://indico.bnl.gov/event/19367/contributions/75970/attachments/47272/80179/sickles_042823.pdf

We will announce the meeting agenda tomorrow, but the sub detector groups that have been able to look at the data should expect to have a short time slot each to present highlights of the studies so far and to propose plots that should be approved for showing in public (please be judicious in the choice of the kind and number of plots for approval). As outlined in the approval policy linked above, for the plots 

"approval requires: 

*discussion in relevant group (TG, detector group, performance group)

* an internal note should be circulated; this can be very short but it should state the data used, reconstruction pass, cuts, etc". 

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Cheers,

Gunther and Dave