Virginia Bailey (GSU) "Jet physics with the sPHENIX detector"
The sPHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) is designed to study the small- scale structure of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) created in collisions of heavy ions. Jets, produced in hard scatterings early in the collisions, provide an ideal probe for the full evolution of the QGP. sPHENIX is the first detector at RHIC with full coverage electromagnetic and hadronic calorimetry at mid-rapidity up to |๐| = 1.1, allowing for precise measurements of jet kinematics and physics effects such as jet energy loss. The sPHENIX calorimeter system consists of three sampling calorimeters: a tungsten and scintillating fiber electromagnetic calorimeter, and an aluminum (steel) and scintillating tile inner (outer) hadronic calorimeter. This talk will discuss the commissioning of the calorimeter systems during the 2023 commissioning run and progress toward jet measurements in sPHENIX.