Predictions for the sPHENIX physics program

Author:

Ron Belmont, Jasmine Brewer, Quinn Brodsky, Paul Caucal, Megan Connors, Magdalena Djordjevic, Raymond Ehlers, Miguel A. Escobedo, Elena G. Ferreiro, Giuliano Giacalone, Yoshitaka Hatta, Jack Holguin, Weiyao Ke, Zhong-Bo Kang, Amit Kumar, Aleksas Mazeliauskas, Yacine Mehtar-Tani, Genki Nukazuka, Daniel Pablos, Dennis V. Perepelitsa, Krishna Rajagopal, Anne M. Sickles, Michael Strickland, Konrad Tywoniuk, Ivan Vitev, Xin-Nian Wang, Zhong Yang, Fanyi Zhao

Keyword:

Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

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date:

2023-05-23 16:00:00

Abstract

sPHENIX is a next-generation detector experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, designed for a broad set of jet and heavy-flavor probes of the Quark-Gluon Plasma created in heavy ion collisions. In anticipation of the commissioning and first data-taking of the detector in 2023, a RIKEN-BNL Research Center (RBRC) workshop was organized to collect theoretical input and identify compelling aspects of the physics program. This paper compiles theoretical predictions from the workshop participants for jet quenching, heavy flavor and quarkonia, cold QCD, and bulk physics measurements at sPHENIX.

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