The RHIC SPIN Program: Achievements and Future Opportunities
Abstract
Time and again, spin has been a key element in the exploration of fundamental physics. Spin-dependent observables have often revealed deficits in the assumed theoretical framework and have led to novel developments and concepts. Spin is exploited in many parity-violating experiments searching for physics beyond the Standard Model or studying the nature of nucleon-nucleon forces. The RHIC spin program plays a special role in this grand scheme: it uses spin to study how a complex many-body system such as the proton arises from the dynamics of QCD. Many exciting results from RHIC spin have emerged to date, most of them from RHIC running after the 2007 Long Range Plan. In this document we present highlights from the RHIC program to date and lay out the roadmap for the significant advances that are possible with future RHIC running.
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@article{arxiv.1501.01220,
title = {The RHIC SPIN Program: Achievements and Future Opportunities},
author = {Elke-Caroline Aschenauer and Alexander Bazilevsky and Markus Diehl and James Drachenberg and Kjeld Oleg Eyser and Renee Fatemi and Carl Gagliardi and Zhongbo Kang and Yuri V. Kovchegov and John Lajoie and Jeong-Hun Lee and Emanuele-R. Nocera and Daniel Pitonyak and Alexei Prokudin and Rodolfo Sassot and Ralf Seidl and Ernst Sichtermann and Matt Sievert and Bernd Surrow and Marco Stratmann and Werner Vogelsang and Anselm Vossen and Scott W. Wissink and Feng Yuan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.01220},
year = {2015}
}