Speaker
John Haggerty
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Description
The past decade of heavy ion physics at RHIC has produced many
surprising discoveries and puzzles. Currently the experiments at the
LHC are providing a first look at things to come: a burgeoning program
for studying the Quark Gluon Plasma with reconstructed jets. The
PHENIX collaboration is in the process of developing a long term plan
involving a series of aggressive upgrades designed to expand the
physics capabilities and make use of the full enhanced luminosity at
RHIC. With increased coverage and the addition of hadronic
calorimetry, we will demonstrate that the sPHENIX upgrade will be well
positioned to provide a broad and exciting program of jet probe
measurements. Sampling 50 billion Au+Au events annually, we will
collect 10 million jets with transverse energy above 20 GeV and 100
thousand jets above 40 GeV. With the addition of tracking layers and
an EM preshower, a crucial program of upsilon measurements, as well as
neutral pion and direct photon measurements with a 40 GeV/c reach, can
be made in a flexible accelerator facility capable of providing a
diverse range of collision systems across many beam energies. And,
ultimately, the sPHENIX detector will provide the base for staging a
future electron-ion collider detector at eRHIC.
Primary author
Dr
Michael McCumber
(University of Colorado)
