The construction of the sPHENIX detector and status of its commissioning

Edward O’Brien

doi:10.1051/epjconf/202429601007

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EPJ Web of Conferences 296, 01007 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202429601007

The construction of the sPHENIX detector and status of its commissioning

Edward O’Brien^* for the sPHENIX Collaboration

Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, USA

^* e-mail: eobrien@bnl.gov

Published online: 26 June 2024

Abstract

sPHENIX is the first new major detector at RHIC in over twenty years. It is designed for pioneering studies of the Quark Gluon Plasma and Cold QCD phenomena using high-p_T jet and heavy flavor probes with a broad kinematic reach and a capability to take large statistics sets of A+A, p+p and p+A data. sPHENIX construction was completed in April 2023. It was commissioned and took first Au+Au data in the RHIC 2023 Run. This paper describes the details of the detector design, challenges of sPHENIX construction, progress on the commissioning and first data from the RHIC 2023 run.

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