sPHENIX: An Upgrade Concept from the PHENIX Collaboration
Nuclear Experiment
2012-07-30 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
The PHENIX collaboration presents a concept for a major upgrade to the PHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). This upgrade, referred to as sPHENIX, brings exciting new capability to the RHIC program by opening new and important channels for experimental investigation and utilizing fully the luminosity of the recently upgraded RHIC facility. sPHENIX enables a compelling jet physics program that will address fundamental questions about the nature of the strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma discovered experimentally at RHIC to be a perfect fluid. The upgrade concept addresses specific questions whose answers are necessary to advance our understanding of the quark-gluon plasma: (1) How to reconcile the observed strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma with the asymptotically free theory of quarks and gluons? (2) What are the dynamical changes to the quark-gluon plasma in terms of quasiparticles and excitations as a function of temperature? (3) How sharp is the transition of the quark-gluon plasma from the most strongly coupled regime near Tc to a weakly coupled system of partons known to emerge at asymptotically high temperatures? In three Appendices, we detail the additional physics capabilities gained through further upgrades: (A) two midrapidity detector additions, (B) a forward rapidity upgrade, and (C) an evolution to an ePHENIX detector suitable for a future Electron Ion Collider at RHIC.
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@article{arxiv.1207.6378,
title = {sPHENIX: An Upgrade Concept from the PHENIX Collaboration},
author = {A. Adare and C. Aidala and N. N. Ajitanand and Y. Akiba and R. Akimoto and J. Alexander and K. Aoki and N. Apadula and H. Asano and E. T. Atomssa and T. C. Awes and B. Azmoun and V. Babintsev and M. Bai and X. Bai and N. Bandara and B. Bannier and K. N. Barish and O. Baron and B. Bassalleck and S. Bathe and V. Baublis and S. Baumgart and A. Bazilevsky and M. Beaumier and R. Belmont and G. Benjamin and A. Berdnikov and Y. Berdnikov and X. Bing and D. Black and J. Blackburn and D. S. Blau and M. Bobrek and J. Bok and S. Boose and K. Boyle and C. L. Britton and M. L. Brooks and J. Bryslawskyj and V. Bumazhnov and C. Butler and S. Butsyk and S. Campbell and A. Carollo and J. -S. Chai and C. -H. Chen and S. Chernichenko and C. Y. Chi and M. Chiu and I. J. Choi and J. B. Choi and S. Choi and S. Chollet and P. Christiansen and T. Chujo and V. Cianciolo and B. A. Cole and N. Cronin and N. Crossett and L. D'Orazio and S. Dairaku and A. Datta and M. S. Daugherity and G. David and K. 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journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.6378},
year = {2012}
}
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427 authors, 63 institutions, 159 pages. v2 has correction only to the author list. Two names were inadvertently omitted in v1 and some names were duplicated. There are no changes to the document, but now the arXiv author lists matches the author list in the document