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Description
The sPHENIX experiment at RHIC is the newest heavy ion experiment in the world. It consists of several detector technologies such as barrel calorimeters, including hadronic calorimeters covering the mid-rapidity region for the first time at RHIC, and high-resolution streaming-capable tracking detectors. This enables precision measurements of jets and beauty-hadrons, allowing for the completion of the RHIC science mission. sPHENIX concluded its commissioning program in 2024 and has already submitted its first two physics papers for publication using gold-gold collision data collected in October 2024. This talk discusses these results, and further preliminary physics results measured by the sPHENIX collaboration, with an outlook to future measurements and their implications for the heavy ion community.
