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The PHENIX experiment has measured single electron spectra at RHIC in proton-proton (p-p), deuteron-gold (d-Au), and gold-gold (Au-Au) collisions at an available energy per nucleon-nucleon pair of sqrt{s_NN} = 200 GeV. Contributions from…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Ralf Averbeck

The sPHENIX experiment is a next-generation collider detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) designed for rare jet and heavy-flavor probes of Au + Au, $p$ + Au, and polarized $p+p$ collisions. The experiment includes a large…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-11-04 Gregory Mattson

Measurement of electrons from heavy quarks by PHENIX has been done for various collision species and energy.PHENIX has measured single electron spectra from heavy flavor decays in Au+Au collisions at $sqrt{S_{NN}} = 200$ GeV.The measurement…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2012-10-16 Sourav Tarafdar , for PHENIX Collaboration

The heavy quarks produced in the early stage of heavy-ion collisions are very effective probes of the dense partonic medium produced at RHIC. PHENIX has the ability to measure heavy quark production through single electrons in the central…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-18 Sanghoon Lim

PHENIX reports on electromagnetic and hadronic observables in large data sets of p+p, d+Au and Au+Au collisions at various cms energies. Initial state effects in cold nuclear matter are quantified by centrality dependent $\pi^0$, $\eta$,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Takao Sakaguchi

First results from the sPHENIX experiment on the $\pi^0$ ${\rm v_{_{2}}}$ and $dE_T/d\eta$ in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}$ = 200 GeV using detector commissioning data during the RHIC 2023 Run are presented. These results are shown…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-10-24 Rachid Nouicer

sPHENIX is a high energy nuclear physics experiment under construction at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). The primary physics goals of sPHENIX are to study the quark-gluon-plasma, as well as the…

sPHENIX is a new collaboration and future detector project at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). It seeks to answer fundamental questions on the nature of the quark gluon plasma (QGP), including its…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-05-24 Sarah Campbell

With the measurement of several observables at SPS energies that demonstrate non-monotonic behavior as a function of centrality and $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$, there is growing interest in pursuing a scan of relativistic heavy ion collisions at low…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 J. T. Mitchell

Heavy quarks are a valuable probe of the hot, dense medium created in a heavy ion collision, and are an important test of proposed mechanisms of energy loss. It was discovered that single non-photonic electrons are suppressed at a similar…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Tatia Engelmore

The paper presents recent PHENIX results for the nuclear modification factor R_AA in Au + Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV for the electrons originating from semi-leptonic decays of open heavy flavor carrying particles. We also report…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergey A. Butsyk

The super Pioneering High Energy Nuclear Interaction eXperiment (sPHENIX) at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) will perform high precision measurements of jets and heavy flavor observables for a wide selection of nuclear collision…

The measurement of single leptons from the semi-leptonic decay of heavy-flavor hadrons has long been a means for studying heavy-quark production. PHENIX has measured single muons in pp collisions at forward rapidity and single electrons in…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Donald Hornback

The pseudorapidity distribution of charged hadrons produced in Au+Au collisions at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} = 200$ GeV is measured using data collected by the sPHENIX detector. Charged hadron yields are extracted by…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-09-03 sPHENIX Collaboration , M. I. Abdulhamid , U. Acharya , E. R. Adams , G. Adawi , C. A. Aidala , Y. Akiba , M. Alfred , S. Ali , A. Alsayegh , S. Altaf , H. Amedi , D. M. Anderson , V. V. Andrieux , A. Angerami , N. Applegate , H. Aso , S. Aune , B. Azmoun , V. R. Bailey , D. Baranyai , S. Bathe , A. Bazilevsky , S. Bela , R. Belmont , J. Bennett , J. C. Bernauer , J. Bertaux , R. Bi , A. Bonenfant , S. Boose , C. Borchers , H. Bossi , R. Botsford , R. Boucher , A. Brahma , J. W. Bryan , D. Cacace , I. Cali , M. Chamizo-Llatas , S. B. Chauhan , A. Chen , D. Chen , J. Chen , K. Chen , K. Y. Chen , K. Y. Cheng , C. -Y. Chi , M. Chiu , J. Clement , E. W. Cline , M. Connors , E. Cook , R. Corliss , Y. Corrales Morales , E. Croft , N. d'Hose , A. Dabas , D. Dacosta , M. Daradkeh , S. J. Das , A. P. Dash , G. David , C. T. Dean , K. Dehmelt , X. Dong , A. Drees , J. M. Durham , A. Enokizono , H. Enyo , J. Escobar Cepero , R. Esha , B. Fadem , R. Feder , K. Finnelli , D. Firak , A. Francisco , J. Frantz , A. Frawley , K. Fujiki , M. Fujiwara , B. Garcia , P. Garg , G. Garmire , E. Gentry , Y. Go , C. Goblin , W. Goodman , Y. Goto , A. Grabas , O. Grachov , J. Granato , N. Grau , S. V. Greene , S. K. Grossberndt , R. Guidolini-Cecato , T. Hachiya , J. S. Haggerty , R. Hamilton , J. Hammond , D. A. Hangal , S. Hasegawa , M. Hata , W. He , X. He , T. Hemmick , A. Hodges , M. E. Hoffmann , A. Holt , B. Hong , M. Housenga , S. Howell , Y. Hu , H. Z. Huang , J. Huang , T. C. Huang , D. A. Huffman , C. Hughes , J. Hwang , T. Ichino , M. Ikemoto , D. Imagawa , H. Imai , D. Jah , J. James , H. -R. Jheng , Y. Ji , Z. Ji , H. Jiang , M. Kano , L. Kasper , T. Kato , Y. Kawashima , M. S. Khan , T. Kikuchi , J. Kim , B. Kimelman , H. T. Klest , A. G. Knospe , M. B. Knuesel , H. S. Ko , J. Kuczewski , N. Kumar , R. Kunnawalkam Elayavalli , C. M. Kuo , J. Kvapil , Y. Kwon , J. Lajoie , J. D. Lang , A. Lebedev , S. Lee , L. Legnosky , S. Li , X. Li , T. Lian , S. Liechty , S. Lim , D. Lis , M. X. Liu , W. J. Llope , D. A. Loomis , R. -S. Lu , L. Ma , W. Ma , V. Mahaut , T. Majoros , I. Mandjavidze , E. Mannel , C. Markert , T. R. Marshall , C. Martin , H. Masuda , G. Mattson , M. Mazeikis , C. McGinn , E. McLaughlin , J. Mead , Y. Mei , T. Mengel , M. Meskowitz , J. Mills , A. Milov , C. Mironov , G. Mitsuka , N. Morimoto , D. Morrison , L. W. Mwibanda , C. -J. Naïm , J. L. Nagle , I. Nakagawa , Y. Nakamura , G. Nakano , A. Narde , C. E. Nattrass , D. Neff , S. Nelson , D. Nemoto , P. A. Nieto-Marín , R. Nouicer , G. Nukazuka , E. O'Brien , G. Odyniec , S. Oh , V. A. Okorokov , A. C. Oliveira da Silva , J. D. Osborn , G. J. Ottino , Y. C. Ou , J. Ouellette , D. Padrazo , T. Pani , J. Park , A. Patton , H. Pereira Da Costa , D. V. Perepelitsa , M. Peters , S. Ping , C. Pinkenburg , R. Pisani , C. Platte , C. Pontieri , T. Protzman , M. L. Purschke , J. Putschke , R. J. Reed , L. Reeves , S. Regmi , E. Renner , D. Richford , C. Riedl , T. Rinn , C. Roland , G. Roland , A. Romero Hernandez , M. Rosati , D. Roy , A. Saed , T. Sakaguchi , H. Sako , S. Salur , J. Sandhu , M. Sarsour , S. Sato , B. Sayki , B. Schaefer , J. Schambach , R. Seidl , B. D. Seidlitz , Y. Sekiguchi , M. Shahid , D. M. Shangase , Z. Shi , C. W. Shih , K. Shiina , M. Shimomura , R. Shishikura , E. Shulga , A. Sickles , D. Silvermyr , R. A. Soltz , W. Sondheim , I. Sourikova , P. Steinberg , D. Stewart , S. Stoll , Y. Sugiyama , O. Suranyi , W. -C. Tang , S. Tarafdar , E. Thorsland , T. Todoroki , L. S. Tsai , H. Tsujibata , M. Tsuruta , J. Tutterow , E. Tuttle , B. Ujvari , E. N. Umaka , M. Vandenbroucke , J. Vasquez , J. Velkovska , V. Verkest , A. Vijayakumar , X. Wang , Y. Wang , Z. Wang , I. S. Ward , M. Watanabe , J. Webb , A. Wehe , A. Wils , V. Wolfe , C. Woody , W. Xie , Y. Yamaguchi , Z. Ye , K. Yip , Z. You , G. Young , C. -J. Yu , X. Yu , X. Yu , W. A. Zajc , V. Zakharov , J. Zhang , C. Zimmerli

We report on two new measurements by the PHENIX collaboration regarding open heavy flavor. The first is an additional contribution to the background in the measurement of the yield of electrons at mid-rapidity from open heavy flavor decays.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Alan Dion

The suppression of hadrons with large transverse momentum ($p_{\rm T}$) in central Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 200 GeV compared to a binary scaled p+p reference is one of the major discoveries at RHIC. To understand the nature…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-03-18 PHENIX Collaboration , Christian Klein-Boesing

The PHENIX Collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has measured open heavy-flavor production in minimum bias Au$+$Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}=200$ GeV via the yields of electrons from semileptonic decays of charm and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 A. Adare , C. Aidala , N. N. Ajitanand , Y. Akiba , R. Akimoto , J. Alexander , M. Alfred , K. Aoki , N. Apadula , Y. Aramaki , H. Asano , E. C. Aschenauer , E. T. Atomssa , T. C. Awes , B. Azmoun , V. Babintsev , M. Bai , N. S. Bandara , B. Bannier , K. N. Barish , B. Bassalleck , S. Bathe , V. Baublis , S. Baumgart , A. Bazilevsky , M. Beaumier , S. Beckman , R. Belmont , A. Berdnikov , Y. Berdnikov , D. Black , D. S. Blau , J. S. Bok , K. Boyle , M. L. Brooks , J. Bryslawskyj , H. Buesching , V. Bumazhnov , S. Butsyk , S. Campbell , C. -H. Chen , C. Y. Chi , M. Chiu , I. J. Choi , J. B. Choi , S. Choi , R. K. Choudhury , P. Christiansen , T. Chujo , O. Chvala , V. Cianciolo , Z. Citron , B. A. Cole , M. Connors , N. Cronin , N. Crossette , M. Csanád , T. Csörgő , S. Dairaku , D. Danley , A. Datta , M. S. Daugherity , G. David , K. DeBlasio , K. Dehmelt , A. Denisov , A. Deshpande , E. J. Desmond , O. Dietzsch , L. Ding , A. Dion , P. B. Diss , J. H. Do , M. Donadelli , L. D'Orazio , O. Drapier , A. Drees , K. A. Drees , J. M. Durham , A. Durum , S. Edwards , Y. V. Efremenko , T. Engelmore , A. Enokizono , S. Esumi , K. O. Eyser , B. Fadem , N. Feege , D. E. Fields , M. Finger , M. Finger, , F. Fleuret , S. L. Fokin , J. E. Frantz , A. Franz , A. D. Frawley , Y. Fukao , T. Fusayasu , K. Gainey , C. Gal , P. Gallus , P. Garg , A. Garishvili , I. Garishvili , H. Ge , F. Giordano , A. Glenn , X. Gong , M. Gonin , Y. Goto , R. Granier de Cassagnac , N. Grau , S. V. Greene , M. Grosse Perdekamp , Y. Gu , T. Gunji , T. Hachiya , J. S. Haggerty , K. I. Hahn , H. Hamagaki , H. F. Hamilton , S. Y. Han , J. Hanks , S. Hasegawa , T. O. S. Haseler , K. Hashimoto , R. Hayano , S. Hayashi , X. He , T. K. Hemmick , T. Hester , J. C. Hill , R. S. Hollis , K. Homma , B. Hong , T. Horaguchi , T. Hoshino , N. Hotvedt , J. Huang , S. Huang , T. Ichihara , H. Iinuma , Y. Ikeda , K. Imai , Y. Imazu , J. Imrek , M. Inaba , A. Iordanova , D. Isenhower , A. Isinhue , D. Ivanishchev , B. V. Jacak , M. Javani , M. Jezghani , J. Jia , X. Jiang , B. M. Johnson , K. S. Joo , D. Jouan , D. S. Jumper , J. Kamin , S. Kanda , B. H. Kang , J. H. Kang , J. S. Kang , J. Kapustinsky , K. Karatsu , D. Kawall , A. V. Kazantsev , T. Kempel , J. A. Key , V. Khachatryan , P. K. Khandai , A. Khanzadeev , K. M. Kijima , B. I. Kim , C. Kim , D. J. Kim , E. -J. Kim , G. W. Kim , M. Kim , Y. -J. Kim , Y. K. Kim , B. Kimelman , E. Kinney , E. Kistenev , R. Kitamura , J. Klatsky , D. Kleinjan , P. Kline , T. Koblesky , B. Komkov , J. Koster , D. Kotchetkov , D. Kotov , F. Krizek , K. Kurita , M. Kurosawa , Y. Kwon , G. S. Kyle , R. Lacey , Y. S. Lai , J. G. Lajoie , A. Lebedev , D. M. Lee , J. Lee , K. B. Lee , K. S. Lee , S Lee , S. H. Lee , S. R. Lee , M. J. Leitch , M. A. L. Leite , M. Leitgab , B. Lewis , X. Li , S. H. Lim , L. A. Linden Levy , M. X. Liu , D. Lynch , C. F. Maguire , Y. I. Makdisi , M. Makek , A. Manion , V. I. Manko , E. Mannel , T. Maruyama , M. McCumber , P. L. McGaughey , D. McGlinchey , C. McKinney , A. Meles , M. Mendoza , B. Meredith , Y. Miake , T. Mibe , J. Midori , A. C. Mignerey , A. Milov , D. K. Mishra , J. T. Mitchell , S. Miyasaka , S. Mizuno , A. K. Mohanty , S. Mohapatra , P. Montuenga , H. J. Moon , T. Moon , D. P. Morrison , M. Moskowitz , T. V. Moukhanova , T. Murakami , J. Murata , A. Mwai , T. Nagae , S. Nagamiya , K. Nagashima , J. L. Nagle , M. I. Nagy , I. Nakagawa , H. Nakagomi , Y. Nakamiya , K. R. Nakamura , T. Nakamura , K. Nakano , C. Nattrass , P. K. Netrakanti , M. Nihashi , T. Niida , S. Nishimura , R. Nouicer , T. Novak , N. Novitzky , A. Nukariya , A. S. Nyanin , H. Obayashi , E. O'Brien , C. A. Ogilvie , K. Okada , J. D. Orjuela Koop , J. D. Osborn , A. Oskarsson , K. Ozawa , R. Pak , V. Pantuev , V. Papavassiliou , I. H. Park , J. S. Park , S. Park , S. K. Park , S. F. Pate , L. Patel , M. Patel , H. Pei , J. -C. Peng , D. V. Perepelitsa , G. D. N. Perera , D. Yu. Peressounko , J. Perry , R. Petti , C. Pinkenburg , R. Pinson , R. P. Pisani , M. L. Purschke , H. Qu , J. Rak , B. J. Ramson , I. Ravinovich , K. F. Read , D. Reynolds , V. Riabov , Y. Riabov , E. Richardson , T. Rinn , N. Riveli , D. Roach , G. Roche , S. D. Rolnick , M. Rosati , Z. Rowan , J. G. Rubin , M. S. Ryu , B. Sahlmueller , N. Saito , T. Sakaguchi , H. Sako , V. Samsonov , M. Sarsour , S. Sato , S. Sawada , B. Schaefer , B. K. Schmoll , K. Sedgwick , R. Seidl , A. Sen , R. Seto , P. Sett , A. Sexton , D. Sharma , I. Shein , T. -A. Shibata , K. Shigaki , M. Shimomura , K. Shoji , P. Shukla , A. Sickles , C. L. Silva , D. Silvermyr , K. S. Sim , B. K. Singh , C. P. Singh , V. Singh , M. Skolnik , M. Slunečka , M. Snowball , S. Solano , R. A. Soltz , W. E. Sondheim , S. P. Sorensen , I. V. Sourikova , P. W. Stankus , P. Steinberg , E. Stenlund , M. Stepanov , A. Ster , S. P. Stoll , T. Sugitate , A. Sukhanov , T. Sumita , J. Sun , J. Sziklai , E. M. Takagui , A. Takahara , A. Taketani , Y. Tanaka , S. Taneja , K. Tanida , M. J. Tannenbaum , S. Tarafdar , A. Taranenko , E. Tennant , R. Tieulent , A. Timilsina , T. Todoroki , M. Tomášek , H. Torii , C. L. Towell , R. Towell , R. S. Towell , I. Tserruya , Y. Tsuchimoto , C. Vale , H. W. van Hecke , M. Vargyas , E. Vazquez-Zambrano , A. Veicht , J. Velkovska , R. Vértesi , M. Virius , B. Voas , V. Vrba , E. Vznuzdaev , X. R. Wang , D. Watanabe , K. Watanabe , Y. Watanabe , Y. S. Watanabe , F. Wei , S. Whitaker , A. S. White , S. N. White , D. Winter , S. Wolin , C. L. Woody , M. Wysocki , B. Xia , L. Xue , S. Yalcin , Y. L. Yamaguchi , A. Yanovich , J. Ying , S. Yokkaichi , J. H. Yoo , I. Yoon , Z. You , I. Younus , H. Yu , I. E. Yushmanov , W. A. Zajc , A. Zelenski , S. Zhou , L. Zou

The sPHENIX collaboration has been taking data since 2023 at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in BNL to study the Quark-Gluon Plasma and cold Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). The tracking system of sPHENIX consists of a time projection…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-08-12 Cheng-Wei Shih

An overview of the latest results on the hard probes from the PHENIX experiment at RHIC is given. The results on the measurements of high $p_{T}$ hadrons, hadron-hadron correlations, open heavy flavor and quarkonia, and direct photons from…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-01-08 Takao Sakaguchi , PHENIX collaboration

The measurement of electrons from semi-leptonic decay of heavy flavor in $p+p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$=200 GeV has been carried out with the PHENIX detector in the RHIC Year-2005 and Year-2006 run. This measurement provides a good test of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-03-23 Yuhei Morino