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SUMMARY:Physics Colloquium | Answering Big Questions about QCD and Quark G
 luon Plasma With New Calorimetry in sPHENIX at RHIC and the ePIC Experime
 nt at the Electron-Ion Collider\, Nov 6
LOCATION:Walter Hall 145\, 25 South Green Drive\, Athens\, Ohio 45701
DESCRIPTION:The Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series presents Justin Fran
 tz of Ohio University\, discussing "Answering Big Questions about QCD and
  Quark Gluon Plasma With New Calorimetry in sPHENIX at RHIC and the ePIC 
 Experiment at the Electron-Ion Collider" on November 6.\n\nAbstract: The 
 sPHENIX Experiment was built quickly to significantly expand capabilities
  for QCD jet measurements at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) w
 hich recently celebrated its final collisions this past spring 2026.\n\nI
  will discuss aspects of the construction\, calibration\, performance dur
 ing data-taking\, and now post-RHIC running analysis of sPHENIX and show 
 how some of the latest important goals of the field are being realized wi
 th the sPHENIX data. One example of this is new data from Oxygen+Oxygen c
 ollisions which are resolving longstanding questions of how small of syst
 ems can create Quark Gluon Plasma. Further I will discuss the pursuit of 
 other high and medium energy QCD physics with sPHENIX and the Electron Io
 n Collider (EIC) facility with its ePIC experiment\, the latter currently
  under construction as a replacement to RHIC\, with an emphasis on the sp
 ecial roles that calorimeter-type detectors are playing in these pursuits
 .\n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/3690ab9c-ef7d-42d3-9a8a-ecb9e7b3b43f
URL:http://next-to-u.app/events/3690ab9c-ef7d-42d3-9a8a-ecb9e7b3b43f
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