Journal ArticleMeasurement of the transverse energy density in <math><mrow><mi>Au</mi><mo>+</mo><mi>Au</mi></mrow></math> collisions at <math><mrow><msqrt><msub><mi>s</mi><mrow><mi>N</mi><mi>N</mi></mrow></msub></msqrt><mo>=</mo><mn>200</mn><mspace width='0.16em'/><mi>GeV</mi></mrow></math> with the sPHENIX detectorAbdulhamid, M I; Acharya, U (ORCID:000000018560963X); Adams, E R; Adawi, G; Aidala, C A (ORCID:0000000195404988); Akiba, Y; Alfred, M; Ali, S; Alsayegh, A; Altaf, S; Amedi, H; Anderson, D M (ORCID:0000000338452304); Andrieux, V V (ORCID:0000000199579910); Angerami, A (ORCID:0000000178348750); Applegate, N; Aso, H; Aune, S; Azmoun, B (ORCID:0000000198243446); Bailey, V R (ORCID:0000000182915711); Baranyai, D; Bathe, S (ORCID:0000000251543801); Bazilevsky, A; Bela, S; Belmont, R (ORCID:0000000151691698); Bennett, J; Bernauer, J C; Bertaux, J (ORCID:0000000263178194); Bi, R; Bonenfant, A; Boose, S; Borchers, C; Bossi, H (ORCID:0000000176026432); Botsford, R; Boucher, R; Brahma, A; 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Shishikura, R; Shulga, E (ORCID:0000000150997644); Sickles, A (ORCID:0000000232460330); Silvermyr, D (ORCID:0000000205265791); Soltz, R A (ORCID:0000000158592369); Sondheim, W; Sourikova, I; Steinberg, P (ORCID:0000000253498370); Stewart, D; Stoll, S (ORCID:0000000230118865); Sugiyama, Y; Suranyi, O (ORCID:000000024684495X); Tang, W-C; Tarafdar, S (ORCID:0000000266019359); Thorsland, E (ORCID:0000000204201980); Todoroki, T; Tsai, L S; Tsujibata, H; Tsuruta, M; Tutterow, J; Tuttle, E; Ujvari, B (ORCID:0000000304984265); Umaka, E N (ORCID:0000000177258227); Vandenbroucke, M (ORCID:0000000190554020); Vasquez, J; Velkovska, J (ORCID:0000000314235241); Verkest, V (ORCID:000000020109397X); Vijayakumar, A (ORCID:0009000255615750); Wang, X; Wang, Y; Wang, Z; Ward, I S (ORCID:0009000308934764); Watanabe, M; Webb, J; Wehe, A; Wils, A; Wolfe, V; Woody, C (ORCID:0000000199778813); Xie, W (ORCID:0000000314309191); Yamaguchi, Y; Ye, Z (ORCID:0000000160916772); Yip, K (ORCID:0000000285764311); You, Z (ORCID:0000000183243291); Young, G; Yu, C-J; Yu, X; Yu, X; Zajc, W A (ORCID:0000000298716511); Zakharov, V (ORCID:0000000169210194); Zhang, J; Zimmerli, CsPHENIX_CollaborationNot AvailableAmerican Physical Society2025-08-0110677997Physical Review C11222469-9985https://doi.org/10.1103/h8d5-swg62402241National Science Foundation