sPHENIX is a new detector at RHIC.

["Shi, Zhaozhong" <zhaozhongshi AT lanl.gov>]

Dear all,

I am invited by organizers of the 52nd edition of the International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics Conference (ISMD 2023) to contribute an abstract. The conference website is shown in the link below:

https://indico.cern.ch/event/1258038/

I plan to submit an sPHENIX talk under the topic: Hadronic final states in high pT interactions. The title and the abstract are shown as follows:

Title: Heavy flavor physics at the sPHENIX experiment

Abstract: The sPHENIX experiment is a state-of-the-art jet and heavy flavor physics detector currently taking Au + Au collision data at 200 GeV at RHIC. sPHENIX will provide heavy flavor physics measurements covering an unexplored kinematic region at RHIC to explore the parton energy loss mechanism, parton transport coefficients in quark-gluon plasma, and the hadronization process under different medium conditions. The Monolithic-Active-Pixel-Sensor (MAPS) based VerTeX detector (MVTX) is a high precision silicon pixel detector. The MVTX provides excellent position resolution and capability of operating in continuous streaming readout mode, allowing precise vertex determination and recording a large data sample, both of which are particularly crucial for heavy flavor physics measurements. In this talk, we will show the general performance of heavy flavor hadron reconstruction. In addition, we will report the commissioning analysis with the first Au + Au data. Finally, we will provide the projection of b-hadron v2 and RAA and discuss the estimated constraints on theoretical models.

The deadline for the abstract submission is on June 30. Any comments or suggestions are welcome. I plan to present my talk virtually. If you have any question or need any additional information, please feel free to contact me. Thank you very much!

Sincerely,

Zhaozhong Shi 

Zhaozhong Shi, PhD

Director's Postdoctoral Fellow

P-3: Nuclear and Particle Physics and Application

Los Alamos National Laboratory

TA-53 Building 1 A106

Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545