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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 detector will enable a spectrum of new or improved cold QCD measurements, enhancing our understanding of the initial state for nuclear collisions. sPHENIX measurements in proton-proton and proton-nucleus collisions will reveal more about how partons behave in a nuclear environment, inform our understanding of the initial state in heavy-ion collisions, and provide comparative data to investigate modification of fragmentation functions. Measurements will also take advantage of RHIC’s unique capability to collide polarized protons on nuclei, which provides novel opportunities to study nuclear effects with spin observables. The cold QCD nuclear 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 |
