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The sPHENIX experiment is a new experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. It was constructed as an upgrade of the PHENIX experiment with the goal to complete the scientific mission of RHIC in studying the quark-gluon plasma and the spin structure of the nucleon. The sPHENIX detector will provide precision vertexing, tracking and electromagnetic and hadronic calorimetry in the central pseudorapidity region |η| < 1.1, with full azimuth coverage, at the full RHIC collision rate, delivering unprecedented data sets for hard probe tomography measurements at RHIC. The sPHENIX detector accumulated production data of transversely polarized proton+proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 200 GeV. The physics goals of the spin program and first preliminary results of will be presented.
