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Description
sPHENIX will start data taking in Spring 2023 at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The sPHENIX Event Plane Detector (sEPD) will provide precision measurements of both the event plane and the centrality of heavy-ion collisions recorded during the sPHENIX running. Measurements of the correlation coefficient v2 as a function of transverse momentum carry important information about the initial-state geometry of the Quark-Gluon Plasma in heavy ions collisions and will provide stringent tests of the theoretical understanding of the initial state in heavy ion collisions. sPHENIX will have a large statistics data sample for p+Au collisions, which will enable the measurement of multiparticle elliptic flow cumulants, which in turn will enable a detailed study of the nature of collective flow and emergent degrees of freedom in the smallest QCD droplets. The SPHENIX collective dynamics physics program, its potential impact, and the recent detector development will be discussed in this talk.
| What kind of work does this abstract pertain to? | Experimental |
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| Which experiment is this abstract related to? | Other |
