Jets in sPHENIX

The sPHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) is designed to study the small scale properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) created in heavy ion collisions. Jets, produced by hard scatterings early in the collisions, provide an ideal probe for the full evolution of the QGP. sPHENIX is the first detector at RHIC with the ability to measure both the electromagnetic and hadronic components of jet energy at mid-rapidity using full coverage electromagnetic and hadronic calorimetry up to |η| = 1.1. Jet substructure measurements and tagging of heavy flavor jets can be achieved with the sPHENIX tracking system's precision track and vertex reconstruction capabilities. These powerful detector systems coupled with sPHENIX's high rate data acquisition system will allow for precision measurements of jets and jet structure in a kinematic region complimentary to measurements at the Large Hadron Collider. Commissioning of the sPHENIX detector with Au+Au collisions at 200 GeV began in Spring 2023. This talk will present the status of commissioning and progress toward first jet physics measurements with sPHENIX.