sPHENIX Jet Performance Studies

The sPHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider is designed to measure high transverse momentum probes of the quark-gluon plasma to study the small-scale structure of the QGP. Jets, the spray of particles created from a high momentum parton produced early in the collision, are an ideal probe as they experience the full evolution of the QGP. In order to understand the jet reconstruction in sPHENIX ahead of data taking, the performance is studied in simulation. Both effects from the detector as well as the performance and optimization of the subtraction of energy from the QGP underlying event are presented. In addition, the status of the detector assembly and testing are reported.