Heavy Flavor Measurements at sPHENIX: A Precision Era of QGP Studies

by Prof. Hideki Okawa (Fudan University)

Monday 24 May 2021, 10:00 → 11:00 Asia/Shanghai

B410 (Main Building)

The sPHENIX is a next generation experiment at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), and will enable a broad range of high-precision heavy flavor (HF) probes of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). It is scheduled to start the operation in 2023. Due to a fast MAPS-based silicon vertex detector (MVTX), sPHENIX will provide precision bottom and charm measurements over a broad momentum range and a wide selection of final states. These new observables at RHIC will offer quantitative access to the initial magnetic field, characterize QGP transport properties, parton energy loss mechanisms, and enable a detailed understanding of heavy quark hadronization. The recent studies on the open heavy flavor hadrons at sPHENIX will be discussed in this talk. About the speaker: Prof. Hideki Okawa is a University Key Position Professor (校聘关键岗位教授) at Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University since 2019. He has obtained his bachelor and PhD from the University of Tokyo in 2004 and 2010, respectively. His research interest ranges widely from the quark-gluon plasma, QCD, Higgs, Top quark, Physics beyond the Standard Model, as well as deep learning application. He is currently involved in sPHENIX, CMS and CEPC, and is a co-convenor of Heavy Flavor Topical Group in sPHENIX. --------------- Zoom link: https://ihep-ac-cn.zoom.com.cn/j/88675276530?pwd=b090dS9oTytFK3JqeERGOU93SEJRZz09 Zoom ID: 88675276530 password: 998963

Slides okawa_sPHENIX_HF_2021.pdf