Commissioning, Performance, and Alignment of the sPHENIX Tracking Detectors

Composed of 4 detectors, the sPHENIX tracking system is designed to record the positions of charged particles produced in high energy ion-ion collisions. The innermost detector is the 3-layer monolithic active pixel sensor (MVTX) that identifies the position of the track vertex. The intermediate tracking detector (INTT) sits outside the MVTX, providing 2 additional measurements with fast timing resolution. The INTT connects tracks from the MVTX to the time projection chamber (TPC). These tracking detectors cover the pseudorapidity range of |eta| < 1.1 and full azimuth. To correct for the space charge distortions, the TPC Outer Tracker (TPOT) is arranged in 16 segments outside the TPC and provides an additional tracking hit. This talk will cover the commissioning, performance, and alignment of the tracking detectors using the 2024 collision data recorded at sPHENIX.