QCD spin physics: status, and prospects for RHIC

Abstract

We review some of the recent developments in QCD spin physics and highlight the spin program now underway at RHIC.

16 pages LaTeX, 14 figures. Invited talk presented at the ``Workshop on High Energy Physics Phenomenology (WHEPP-8)'', Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, January 5-16, 2004

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• Universality of T-odd effects in single spin and azimuthal asymmetries
• Mid-Rapidity Neutral Pion Production in Proton-Proto Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV
• Cross Sections and Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetries in Forward Neutral-Pion Production from Proton Collisions at \sqrt{s} = 200 GeV
• Precision Measurement of the Neutron Spin Asymmetry $A_1^n$ and Spin-Flavor Decomposition in the Valence Quark Region
• Flavor decomposition of the sea quark helicity distributions in the nucleon from semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering
• Gluon-Exchange in Spin-Dependent Fragmentation
• Three-Quark Light-Cone Amplitudes of The Proton And Quark-Orbital-Motion Dependent Observables
• Accessing transversity via J/Psi production in polarized p-pbar interactions
• Transversity distribution function in hard scattering of polarized protons and antiprotons in the PAX experiment
• Sivers vs. Collins effect in azimuthal single spin asymmetries in pion production in SIDIS
• Do we understand the single-spin asymmetry for $p{i}^0$ inclusive production in pp collisions?
• Single-spin asymmetries with weak bosons at RHIC
• Collins fragmentation function from gluon rescattering
• Single Transverse Spin Asymmetry in $p^{\uparrow }p\to \pi X$ and $e{p}^{\uparrow }\to \pi X$
• QCD Hard Scattering and the Sign of the Spin Asymmetry A_LL^pi
• Polarized SIDIS: comment on purity method for extraction of polarized quark distributions
• Spin Physics at RHIC
• Consistency in NLO analyses of inclusive and semi-inclusive polarized DIS data

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• Progress in the Neural Network Determination of Polarized Parton Distributions