sPHENIX Jet Trigger Performance and Dijet Asymmetry in $p$ + $p$ $\rts = 200$ GeV

The sPHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) is a new, state-of-the-art detector built to make precision measurements of jet observables. During Run-24, RHIC ran $p$+$p$ at $\rts = 200$ GeV as the reference data-set for its Au+Au running. In the collaboration between University of Colorado Boulder and Nevis Laboratories at Columbia University, a suite of rare-event triggers were designed, implemented, and deployed to sample the full luminosity. This includes a jet trigger based on the electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters. This talk will review the performance of the jet trigger in $p$+$p$ collisions in Run-24, and, in addition, explore a first look at the dijet asymmetry, an important observable for early QGP physics with sPHENIX.