Understanding the composition of nucleon spin with the PHENIX detector at RHIC

Deshpande, Abhay

doi:10.1093/ptep/ptv019

Title: Understanding the composition of nucleon spin with the PHENIX detector at RHIC

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The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) has just finished 14 years of operation. A significant fraction of these operating years were with polarized proton collisions at 62.4, 200, and 500 GeV center of mass, investigating various aspects of nucleon spin through longitudinal and transversely polarized collisions. These data have helped to address some of the most puzzling and fundamental questions in quantum chromodynamics including: what fraction of the nucleon’s spin originates in the gluon’s helicity contribution?, how polarized are the sea quarks?, and what if any, is the evidence for transverse motion of quarks in polarized protons? These questions have been addressed by the PHENIX detector collaboration. We present in this review highlights of the PHENIX results and discuss their impact.

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Deshpande, Abhay ^[1]

Stony Brook Univ., Stony Brook, NY (United States); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Publication Date:: Mon Jan 12 00:00:00 EST 2015

Research Org.:: Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)

Contributing Org.:: PHENIX Collaboration

OSTI Identifier:: 1191176

Grant/Contract Number:: SC00112704

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 2015; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2050-3911

Publisher:: Physical Society of Japan

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS

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  title        = {Understanding the composition of nucleon spin with the PHENIX detector at RHIC},

  author       = {Deshpande, Abhay},

  abstractNote = {The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) has just finished 14 years of operation. A significant fraction of these operating years were with polarized proton collisions at 62.4, 200, and 500 GeV center of mass, investigating various aspects of nucleon spin through longitudinal and transversely polarized collisions. These data have helped to address some of the most puzzling and fundamental questions in quantum chromodynamics including: what fraction of the nucleon’s spin originates in the gluon’s helicity contribution?, how polarized are the sea quarks?, and what if any, is the evidence for transverse motion of quarks in polarized protons? These questions have been addressed by the PHENIX detector collaboration. We present in this review highlights of the PHENIX results and discuss their impact.},

  doi          = {10.1093/ptep/ptv019},

  journal      = {Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics},

  number       = 3,

  volume       = 2015,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Mon Jan 12 00:00:00 EST 2015},

  month        = {Mon Jan 12 00:00:00 EST 2015}

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