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Heavy-ion collisions at the BNL-RHIC collider can probe whether gluon saturation effects in nuclei at small x have set in, or whether leading-twist perturbative estimates of particle production are still applicable. I discuss that soon to…

We consider spin asymmetries for prompt photon production in collisions of longitudinally polarized hadrons. This reaction will be a key tool at the BNL-RHIC pp collider for determining the gluon spin density in a polarized proton. We study…

These proceedings show the preliminary results of the dijet longitudinal double spin asymmetry $A_{LL}$ in polarized proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 200$ GeV for the pseudorapidity range $|\eta| \le 0.8$. The integrated luminosity…

We report measurements of the longitudinal double spin asymmetry for inclusive jet production using polarized p+p collisions at sqrt{s} = 200 GeV at RHIC. Results from the 2005 and 2006 runs are presented. These results set substantial new…

The COMPASS experiment is a fixed target experiment at the CERN SPS using muon and hadron beams for the investigation of the spin structure of the nucleon and hadron spectroscopy. The main objective of the muon physics program is the study…

We present a systematic study of the proton spin structure in terms of measurable parton distributions. For a transversely-polarizedproton, we derive a polarization sum rule from the leading generalized parton distributions appearing in…

We consider the production of $W$ and $Z / \gamma^{*}$ gauge bosons in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s} = 510 \mbox{GeV}$ available at RHIC at BNL, operating at high luminosity. We stress the importance of…

The operation of HERA with polarized proton and electron beams will allow to study a wide variety of observables in polarized electron-proton collisions at $\sqrt s=300$ GeV. The physics prospects of this project have been elaborated in…

Analyzing powers in inclusive pion production in high energy transversely polarized proton-proton collisions are studied theoretically in the framework of the quark recombination model. Calculations by assuming the SU(6) spin-flavor…

We consider longitudinal, parity-violating single-spin asymmetries in proton-proton collisions at RHIC. The focus of this study is on the production of single-inclusive jets, as well as on jets that contain a charm quark. While the…

We study parity-even and parity-odd polarization observables for the process $p \, p \to l^{\pm} \, X$, where the lepton comes from the decay of a $W$-boson. By using the collinear twist-3 factorization approach, we consider the case when…

By assuming that there is no significant intrinsic polarization of the gluon, we have computed the polarized quark contributions to the proton's spin under SU(3) flavor symmetry breaking for the polarized sea and have performed a global…

Hadroproductions of charmonium and bottomonium $\chi_J$ in polarized $pp$ collisions at RHIC energies are studied. Two--spin asymmetries $A_{LL}^{\chi_J}(pp)$ for these reactions are very good parameters for examining the polarized gluon…

The PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has measured the longitudinal double spin asymmetries, $A_{LL}$, for charged pions at midrapidity ($|\eta|<0.35$) in longitudinally polarized $p$$+$$p$ collisions at…

Our recent study shows that the double spin asymmetry of J/\psi pair production is measurable in polarised p-p collision at RHIC in near future. And hence it enables us to extract the polarised gluon distribution function \Delta G (x).

We derive the analog of the Wandzura-Wilczek relation for the light-cone distributions of polarized gluons in a transversely polarized nucleon. The short distance cross-section is entirely due to the intrinsic transverse momenta of gluon in…

QCD motivated polarized parton distributions, evolved directly in x-space, are used to predict rates for prompt photon and Jet production at RHIC and HERA-N center of mass energies. Various scenarios for the polarized gluon distributions…

We present the first inclusive jet longitudinal double spin asymmetry A_LL and differential cross-section measurement from STAR. This analysis reflects ~1 pb^-1 of polarized pp data taken at sqrt{s}=200 GeV with beam polarizations of 30-45%…

The contribution to the spin of the proton from the gluon helicity is starting to come into focus: for gluons carrying a large fraction $x$ of the proton momentum, evidence of positive gluon polarization has been observed, via measurements…

In the year 2005 run PHENIX has accumulated 3.8 pb$^{-1}$ integrated luminosity in longitudinally polarized $p+p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=200$ GeV. Double helicity asymmetries of neutral pions lead to restrictions of the gluon polarization…