Spin Physics at RHIC
arXiv:hep-ex/0212013 · doi:10.1063/1.1607122
Abstract
The physics goals that will be addressed by colliding polarized protons at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) are described. The RHIC spin program provides a new generation of experiments that will unfold the quark, anti-quark and gluon contributions to the proton's spin. In addition to these longer term goals, this paper describes what was learned from the first polarized proton collisions at =200 GeV. These collisions took place in a five-week run during the second year of RHIC operation.
14 pages; 7 ps and eps figures; uses aipxfm.sty, aipproc.cls,and aip-6s.clo. Invited talk presented at the "15th International Spin Physics Symposium," SPIN2002, September 9-14, 2002, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA. To be published in the proceedings