sPHENIX is a new detector at RHIC.

["Hodges, Anthony" <ahodges4 AT illinois.edu>]

Good evening folks, 

Thanks to Ed and Grazyna for the feedback regarding referencing the magnet, I've simply removed reference to BaBar in the abstract. I'll submit tomorrow morning barring any feedback received tonight. 

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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From: Hodges, Anthony
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2023 1:59 PM
To: sPHENIX list <sphenix-l AT lists.bnl.gov>
Subject: sPHENIX Overview Talk at PIC 2023

 

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