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Title: Spin physics at BNL

Conference ·
OSTI ID:5620426

Spin Physics at the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) of Brookhaven National Laboratory is the most recent of new capabilities being explored at this facility. During the summer of 1984 the AGS accelerated beams of polarized protons to 16.5 GeV/c at 40% polarization to two experiments (E782, E785). These experiments; single spin asymmetry in inclusive polarized pp interactions; and spin-spin effects in polarized pp elastic scattering, operated at the highest polarized proton energy ever achieved by any accelerator in the world. These experiments are reviewed after the complementary spin physics program with unpolarized protons, and the future possibilities with a booster injector for the AGS and the secondary benefits of a Relativisitic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), are placed within the context of the present physics program.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-76CH00016
OSTI ID:
5620426
Report Number(s):
BNL-36188; CONF-850281-1; ON: DE85009768
Resource Relation:
Conference: Western regional nuclear physics conference and school on intermediate and high energy spin physics, Alberta, Canada, 21 Feb 1985; Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English