The RHIC Spin Program: Achievements and Future Opportunities
Nuclear Experiment
2013-04-18 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
This document summarizes recent achievements of the RHIC spin program and their impact on our understanding of the nucleon's spin structure, i.e. the individual parton (quark and gluon) contributions to the helicity structure of the nucleon and to understand the origin of the transverse spin phenomena. Open questions are identified and a suite of future measurements with polarized beams at RHIC to address them is laid out. Machine and detector requirements and upgrades are briefly discussed.
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@article{arxiv.1304.0079,
title = {The RHIC Spin Program: Achievements and Future Opportunities},
author = {E. C. Aschenauer and A. Bazilevsky and K. Boyle and K. O. Eyser and R. Fatemi and C. Gagliardi and M. Grosse-Perdekamp and John Lajoie and Zhongbo Kang and Yuri Kovchegov and John Koster and Itaru Nakagawa and Rodolfo Sassot and Ralf Seidl and Ernst Sichtermann and Marco Stratmann and Werner Vogelsang and Anselm Vossen and Scott W. Wissink and Feng Yuan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.0079},
year = {2013}
}