sPHENIX Plans for Bulk Physics

Situated at RHIC, sPHENIX is a new collider detector designed for studies of the Quark-Gluon-Plasma via jet and heavy flavor probes. In addition to the purpose of its original design, the large acceptance, excellent tracking efficiency, high data-taking rate and sub-detectors located in the forward and backward region allows for the study of soft particle production and collective flow. sPHENIX is currently being commissioned with Au+Au collisions at 200 GeV.
This talk will summarize sPHENIX plans for bulk physics, and present the status of the first bulk physics related measurements.