sPHENIX is a new detector at RHIC.

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

Dear sPHENIX colleagues,

I invite your comments on draft v1 of the 2023 Beam Use Proposal. 

You may find the document in Invenio here: 

https://sphenix-invenio.sdcc.bnl.gov/records/553xs-ghz80 

and conveniently as a attachment under the BUP Indico contribution in last week’s GM: 

https://indico.bnl.gov/event/20316/contributions/79800/attachments/49195/84013/sPHENIX_Beam_Use_Proposal_2023_v1.pdf 

Any comments received by the end of Wednesday, 23 August would be very useful. Again, I realize the timing is very tight - this is largely a consequence of us processing the late-arriving projections from C-AD and discussing the strategy around them. I would appreciate comments on the specific proposals and the overall framing and arguments, as well as more minor editorial/mechanical comments on the text.

The sections with the most substantially new material are the Executive Summary, Chapter 2 introduction through 2.2, and the introduction to Chapter 3. 

As a reminder, detailed discussion of the commissioning status and plans have been moved to the separate commissioning document circulated by John Haggerty, and are only briefly alluded to in the BUP document.

Dennis 

Dennis V. Perepelitsa
Associate Professor, Physics Department
University of Colorado Boulder