Precision bottom physics program at sPHENIX with inner vertex detector upgrade

The planned sPHENIX experiment at RHIC aims to study the microscopic nature of strongly interacting matter ranging from nucleons to the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) with high precision measurements of jets and heavy flavor observables for a wide selection of nuclear collision systems. In particular, the bottom quark is expected to be produced in a hard scattering before the QGP creation in heavy ion collisions and experience the medium throughout its evolution. The observables of bottom quark tagged jets (b-jets), bottom hadrons and their correlations at sPHENIX cover a wide kinematic range of the bottom probes. The sPHENIX measurements are complementary to the studies at the LHC, experiencing less fraction of bottom production via gluon splitting and probing QGP of different properties. Such measurements are essential for our understanding of the bottom quark energy loss mechanisms and transport properties of the QGP medium. To achieve these goals, the sPHENIX collaboration proposed to utilize a state of the art silicon vertex detector based on the Monolithic-Active-Pixel-Sensor (MAPS) technology. The detector design, physics reach and the status of detector R&D will be presented.