sPHENIX is a new detector at RHIC.

[Grazyna Odyniec <g_odyniec AT lbl.gov>]

Dear Ed, Anthony and All,

I thought about it too. Can we just agree for its new name, and call it 
from now on, the "sPHENIX magnet" ?

best

Grazyna



On 9/28/23 2:03 PM, Edward O'Brien via sPHENIX-l wrote:
>     Hi Anthony,
>      Your abstract looks good. My one comment is that
>     we probably don't need to the refer to our 1.4T superconducting
>     solenoidal magnet as the BaBar magnet anymore. Its been in the
>     possession of sPHENIX for over 8 years now. Thanks.
>
>     Ed
>
>
> On 9/28/23 1:59 PM, Hodges, Anthony via sPHENIX-l wrote:
> > Good afternoon everyone,
> >
> > I have been asked to give the sPHENIX overview talk by the sPHENIX 
> > Speaker's Bureau at the upcoming Physics in Collision conference. 
> > This is an invited parallel talk, and as such requires a title and 
> > abstract, which I've posted below for your consideration. The 
> > deadline for submission is Saturday, September 30th. Additionally, I 
> > will submit slides for review next Tuesday, October 3rd, and will 
> > give a rehearsal talk somewhere between that Wednesday and Friday. 
> > Your feedback at each step is much appreciated!
> >
> > "Probing the Quark-Gluon Plasma with the sPHENIX Detector at RHIC"
> >
> > "The sPHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) 
> > is a next-generation, state-of-the-art detector designed to make 
> > precision measurements that will probe the nature of the Quark-Gluon 
> > Plasma at the smallest length-scales possible and will also enable 
> > some cold QCD measurements. The sPHENIX physics program broadly 
> > encompasses two central pillars: the study of highly energetic sprays 
> > of particles known as jets, and the study of bound states of 
> > heavy-flavor quarks such as Upsilons. The sPHENIX jet program is 
> > supported by a full suite of electromagnetic and hadronic 
> > calorimetry, with the latter being the first of its kind at RHIC, 
> > which will allow for unbiased measurements of jet modification in 
> > heavy-ion collisions. The heavy-flavor program relies on sPHENIX's 
> > precision tracking capabilities, which are provided by a compact Time 
> > Projection Chamber (TPC) and its outer tracker (TPOT), silicon-strip 
> > intermediate tracker, and a MAPS-based vertex detector, all enclosed 
> > within a 1.4 T BaBar super-conducting solenoidal magnet. 
> > Additionally, the sPHENIX tracking is not only designed to make 
> > precision measurements of the Upsilon 1S, 2S, and 3S, bound states, 
> > but to also to integrate into the jet physics program, allowing for 
> > high-precision jet substructure measurements. This talk will discuss 
> > in detail the sPHENIX subsystems and their capabilities, the sPHENIX 
> > physics program, the results of the first phase of the sPHENIX 2023 
> > commissioning run, and plans for future sPHENIX for data taking."
> >
> > Best,
> > -Anthony
> >
> > Anthony Hodges, PhD (he/him/his)
> > High Energy Experimental Nuclear Physics
> > Postdoctoral Researcher, NSF MPS-Ascend Fellow
> > University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
> >
> >
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