sPHENIX tracking discussion

[Klaus Dehmelt <klaus.dehmelt AT stonybrook.edu>]

Dear all,

we are planning to submit an abstract to the DNP Fall Meeting 2016 concerning a TPC for sPHENIX. The abstract submission deadline has been extended from July 01 to July 14.

Any and all comments are very welcome.

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The sPHENIX detector is being proposed at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider to measure jets and upsilons for advancing our understanding of the quark gluon plasma formed in heavy ion collisions. sPHENIX is based on a superconducting solenoid magnet formerly used by the BaBar experiment, and of charged particle tracking, electromagnetic as well as hadronic calorimetry. It covers a large acceptance and allows to acquire data at a rate of up to 15 kHz.

Furthermore, a GEM-based Time Projection Chamber has been proposed to improve tracking resolution in a high multiplicity environment.

In this talk we will present the current status of ongoing R&D and simulation studies for tracking with a TPC.

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Best,

Klaus

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Klaus Dehmelt

Stony Brook University

Dept. of Physics and Astronomy

Stony Brook, NY 11794-3800, USA

Office C108

Phone +1 631 632 8115

E-mail klaus.dehmelt AT stonybrook.edu

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