Speaker
Richard Seto
(University of California, Riverside)
Description
The field of Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics has made great strides in
the past decade with the establishment of the strongly interacting
Quark Gluon Plasma (sQGP) in high energy collisions of heavy ions at
the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and now at the LHC.
Experience has taught us that large rapidity coverage, as well as
careful measurements of cold nuclear matter will be important factors
in giving us a quantitative understanding of the sQGP. I will outline
plans for a upgrade aimed at covering a region 1<eta<4 and the
contributions that such as upgrade can make to our understanding of
the initial state, entropy production, parton energy loss, and long
range correlations in the sQGP. I will also briefly indicate some of
the spin measurements which such an upgrade will enable as well as
its capabilities in an early phase of a possible electron-ion
program. Inherent in this plan, is the capability of an sPHENIX
detector, which together with the central region upgrade
will cover a rapidity region between -1 and 4 units of rapidity
with a capability to make the most critical measurements towards a
comprehensive understanding of the sQGP.
Author
Richard Seto
(University of California, Riverside)
