Speaker
Description
sPHENIX is the first new collider detector experiment for heavy-ion physics since the switch on of the LHC and was successfully commissioned during 2023 and 2024. A major feature of sPHENIX is the use of a tracking system capable of streaming readout, enabling the collection of very large, unbiased p+p datasets previously not available at RHIC. Using this ability, sPHENIX recorded over 100 billion p+p collisions at 200 GeV in Run-24. This data sample allows for an open heavy flavor physics program with low-p$_T$ reach and high precision in both the open charm and beauty sectors. This talk will report sPHENIX measurements in the open charm sector, which are expected to include p+p reference cross-sections, ratios of identified yields for heavy flavor hadronization studies, and multiplicity dependence of charm production, all of which can be measured with unprecedented statistics, or even for the first time, at RHIC.
| Category | Experiment |
|---|---|
| Collaboration (if applicable) | sPHENIX Collaboration |
