Speaker
Description
The sPHENIX experiment is a next-generation collider detector at RHIC designed for rare jet and heavy flavor probes of the Quark-Gluon Plasma. The experiment includes large-acceptance, hermetic electromagnetic (EMCal) and hadronic (HCal) calorimeter systems, along with a very high-rate data acquisition plus trigger system. In RHIC Run-24, sPHENIX sampled 107/pb of p+p collision data at 200 GeV using an efficient high-p$_T$ jet trigger. This dataset represents a major increase in the luminosity times acceptance compared to previous measurements for this collision energy, along with the first HCal at mid-rapidity at RHIC. This talk presents a measurement of dijet p$_T$ asymmetries and azimuthal acoplanarities, over a wide range of leading jet p$_T$, performed with the full sPHENIX calorimeter system. These measurements provide the pQCD baseline for measurements of dijet p$_T$ asymmetries and angular decorrelation in future sPHENIX Au+Au data-taking at RHIC. The tighter initial kinematic correlations at RHIC compared to the LHC are expected to greatly increase the sensitivity to physics effects.
| Category | Theory |
|---|---|
| Collaboration (if applicable) | sPHENIX Collaboration |
