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Description
The 2015 Nuclear Science long range plan recommendation describes the importance for RHIC to complete its scientific mission and the crucial role sPHENIX plays in achieving that goal. sPHENIX is specifically designed to make state-of-the-art jet, upsilon and heavy flavor measurements to probe the inner workings of the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) produced in heavy ion collisions at RHIC. The unique capabilities of sPHENIX including its large data collection rate provide opportunities to also study bulk phenomena of the QGP as well as explore cold QCD. sPHENIX includes calorimetery and tracking detectors at mid-rapidity ($|\eta|<1$). The calorimeter system is composed of electomagnetic (EMCal) and hadronic calorimeters to precisely measure the energy of the jets. The EMCal also allows for measurements of electrons from quarkonia as well as photons. The precision tracking system will enable jet substructure measurements and tagging of heavy flavor quarks. sPHENIX, which is currently under construction, is scheduled to begin taking Au+Au data in February 2023. The current status, proposed run plans and anticipated precision for key observables will be presented.
