Yale Wright Lab NPA Seminar: Virginia Bailey, Georgia State University
Thursday, October 31, 2024
NPA Seminar: Virginia Bailey, Georgia State University
“Early results from sPHENIX run 2024”
The sPHENIX detector is a new, state of the art detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) designed to measure the small-scale properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). sPHENIX features full coverage electromagnetic and hadronic calorimetry, precision tracking and vertex detectors, and a high rate data acquision system which will allow for high precision measurements of jet and heavy-flavor probes of the QGP. sPHENIX began commissioning in 2023 and completed its first physics run in 2024, sampling over 100pb-1 of proton-proton collisions. This talk will discuss early results from commissioning and physics data, and present the outlook for physics results from run 2024 and beyond.