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The sea quark contribution to the nucleon spin is an important piece for a complete understanding of the nucleon spin structure. The production of W bosons in longitudinally polarized $p + p$ collisions at RHIC provides an unique probe for…
Understanding the internal spin structure of the nucleon remains a challenge in strong interaction physics. The unique capability of RHIC opened new avenues in studying the internal structure of the proton with unprecedented depth and…
The production of $W^\pm$ bosons in longitudinally polarized proton-proton collisions at RHIC provides a direct probe for the spin-flavor structure of the proton through the parity-violating single-spin asymmetry, $A_L$. At STAR, the…
At RHIC kinematics, polarized jet hadroproduction is dominated by $gg$ and $qg$ scattering, making the jet longitudinal double-spin asymmetry, $A_{LL}$, sensitive to gluon polarization in the nucleon. I will present STAR results of $A_{LL}$…
At RHIC kinematics, polarized jet hadroproduction is dominated by $gg$ and $qg$ scattering, making the jet double longitudinal spin asymmetry, $A_{LL}$, sensitive to gluon polarization in the nucleon. I will present STAR results of $A_{LL}$…
Spin-dependent pomeron effects are analyzed for elastic $pp$ scattering and calculations for spin-dependent differential cross sections, analyzing power and double-spin correlation parameters are carried out for the energy range of the…
In late 2001 the first polarized proton collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) took place. The PHENIX experiment at RHIC has a broad program to investigate the spin structure of the proton. This program will be described,…
The magnitude of the double-spin asymmetry A_{NN} in polarized proton elastic scattering is estimated using results from an earlier determination of the spin-flip coupling of the leading Regge poles (cf. T.L.Trueman, Proceedings of the 16th…
The sea quark contribution to the nucleon spin is an important piece for a complete understanding of the nucleon spin structure. The production of $W$ bosons in longitudinally polarized $p + p$ collisions at RHIC provides an unique probe…
We present the inclusive and identified particle (pion, proton and their antiparticle) production in Single Diffraction Dissociation and Central Diffraction processes with the STAR detector at RHIC. The forward-scattered proton(s) are…
We examine a suggestion to use ${p-} ^4{He}$ elastic scattering, as an absolute polarimeter for high-energy polarized proton beams, by means of a Coulomb-Nuclear Interference effect for the single-spin asymmetry $A_N(t)$, around the…
Proton-proton elastic scattering has been measured by the TOTEM experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider at {\surd}s = 7 TeV in dedicated runs with the Roman Pot detectors placed as close as seven times the transverse beam size (sbeam)…
The STAR collaboration has reported precision measurements on the transverse single spin asymmetries for the production of forward $\pi^0$ mesons from polarized proton collisions at the center of mass energy of 200 GeV. Disentangling…
The production of $W^\pm$ bosons in longitudinally polarized $p+p$ collisions at RHIC provides a direct probe for the spin-flavor structure of the proton through the parity-violating single-spin asymmetry, $A_L$. At STAR, the leptonic decay…
The proposal to perform polarized proton-proton collisions at collider energies at RHIC is reviewed. After a brief reminder of the desirability of high energy spin physics measurements, we discuss the machine parameters and detector…
Progress in STAR over the last two years and projections for the coming two years are discussed. Important technical developments have been the completion of the barrel and endcap electromagnetic calorimeters. Measurement of inclusive pi_0…
RHIC-STAR is a mid-rapidity collider experiment for studying high energy nuclear collisions. The main physics goals of STAR experiment are 1) studying the properties of the strongly coupled Quark Gluon Plasma, 2) explore the QCD phase…
A new effort to explore the diffractive regime in polarized $p+p$ collisions in a broad high energy range ($\sqrt{s}$ = 200 - 500 GeV) has been initiated with the STAR detector at RHIC. Staged implementation of multiple Roman Pot stations…
The origins of the proton spin remain an area of active investigation. The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Lab uniquely provides polarized proton data at high center of mass energies. STAR has previously…
We report on the measurement of the central exclusive production process $pp \ \rightarrow \ pXp$ in proton-proton collisions at RHIC with the STAR detector at $\sqrt{\mathrm{s}} = 510$ GeV. At this energy, this process is dominated by a…