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Predictions for the sPHENIX physics program

sPHENIX is a next-generation detector experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, designed for a broad set of jet and heavy-flavor probes of the Quark-Gluon Plasma created in heavy ion collisions. In anticipation of the commissioning and first …

Opportunities of OO and $p$O collisions at the LHC

This is the summary document of the virtual workshop "Opportunities of OO and pO collisions at the LHC", which took place Feb 4-10, 2021. We briefly review the presented perspectives on the physics opportunities of oxygen--oxygen and proton--oxygen …

Initial conditions for nuclear collisions: theory overview