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Description
sPHENIX is an exciting new experiment recently constructed at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) that will allow for the study of high precision heavy flavor (HF) observables of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), with capabilities not previously available at RHIC. The tracking system of sPHENIX is made up of four detectors working together in a hybrid streaming mode, which are the MAPS vertex detector (MVTX), intermediate silicon tracker (INTT), time projection chamber (TPC), and TPC outer tracker (TPOT). sPHENIX also includes a large acceptance, hermetic calorimeter system which features the first barrel hadronic calorimeter at RHIC. This state-of-the-art system enables the study of high statistics, unbiased heavy flavor samples, including fully reconstructed heavy flavor jets with high precision. The first sPHENIX physics run is scheduled to begin in April 2024, following a commissioning run in 2023. In this talk, we will present the progress made in the commissioning of the tracking system with collision data, the roadmap towards the first HF physics results at sPHENIX, and performance projections for the entire HF physics program.
