DIS2022: XXIX International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects

Heavy flavor physics with the sPHENIX detector at RHIC

5 May 2022, 11:30

20m

Parallel talk WG4: QCD with Heavy Flavours and Hadronic Final States WG4: QCD with Heavy Flavours and Hadronic Final States

Speaker

Sanghoon Lim (Pusan National University (KR))

Description

In 2023, the sPHENIX detector at BNL’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) will begin measuring a suite of unique jet and heavy flavor observables with unprecedented statistics and kinematic reach at the RHIC energies using combined EM and hadronic calorimeters and high precision tracking. A MAPS-based vertex detector upgrade to sPHENIX, the MVTX, will provide a precise determination of the impact parameter of tracks relative to the primary vertex in high multiplicity heavy-ion collisions and polarized proton-proton/proton-nuclei collisions. It will enable precision measurements of open heavy-flavor observables, covering an unexplored kinematic region at RHIC. The physics program, its potential impact, and the recent detector development will be discussed in this talk.

Presentation materials

DIS_shlim_HF_sPHENIX_final.pdf