The sPHENIX Experiment at RHIC

Journal Article · Fri Mar 05 00:00:00 EST 2021 · PoS - Proceedings of Science

DOI:https://doi.org/10.22323/1.390.0731· OSTI ID:1778779

Dean, Cameron Thomas ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

The sPHENIX experiment is the successor to the PHENIX experiment at RHIC and is optimized to study heavy flavor and jets arising from heavy ion collisions. The detector utilizes advanced technologies such as a monolithic active pixel vertex detector while also repurposing technologies originally from other high energy experiments such as BaBar, ATLAS and ALICE. The design and status of the sPHENIX detector is detailed along with the projected physics capabilities and planned measurements that the collaboration will work to achieve. sPHENIX is expected to begin data taking in 2023.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
• Grant/Contract Number: 89233218CNA000001
• OSTI ID: 1778779
• Report Number(s): LA-UR--20-30202
• Journal Information: PoS - Proceedings of Science, Journal Name: PoS - Proceedings of Science Vol. 390; ISSN 1824-8039
• Publisher: SISSA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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