Overview of latest results from PHENIX

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent results from the PHENIX experiment at RHIC, focusing on high-energy probes like hadrons, heavy flavor, quarkonia, and photons, to understand the quark-gluon plasma in various collision systems.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of the latest experimental findings on hard probes across different collision systems, highlighting insights into QGP formation and transition.

Findings

Evidence of medium effects in large collision systems.

Observations of possible QGP onset in small systems.

Detailed measurements of high $p_{T}$ hadrons and correlations.

Abstract

An overview of the latest results on the hard probes from the PHENIX experiment at RHIC is given. The results on the measurements of high $p_{T}$ hadrons, hadron-hadron correlations, open heavy flavor and quarkonia, and direct photons from large (Au+Au) to small collision systems ($p$+Al and $p/d/^3$He+Au) provided a deeper insight on the medium created in the large systems and the possible onset of QGP-nization in transition from small to large systems.