Speaker
Description
The sPHENIX detector at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) uses the combination of electromagnetic calorimetry, hermetic hadronic calorimetry, precision tracking, and the ability to record data at high rates without trigger bias to make pioneering measurements of jets, jet substructure, and jet correlations. Jet observables are a particularly useful probe of the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) formed in heavy-ion collisions since the hard scattered partons that fragment into final state jets are strongly quenched through interactions with the medium they traverse. In spring 2023, the sPHENIX detector will begin data taking and making jet measurements with a kinematic reach that not only overlaps those performed at the LHC, but extends them into a new, low-pT regime where quenching effects are large. Thus the sPHENIX physics program can answer fundamental questions about the parton energy loss process, and the underlying nature of the QGP. This talk will give an overview of the status of the detector and the envisioned jet physics program.
| What kind of work does this abstract pertain to? | Experimental |
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| Which experiment is this abstract related to? | Other |
