THE FUTURE OF SPIN PHYSICS AT BNL.
Conference
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OSTI ID:897800
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at BNL is the world's only polarized proton-proton collider. Collisions at center-of-mass energies up to 500 GeV and beam polarizations approaching 70% (longitudinal or transverse) are provided to two experiments, STAR and PHENIX, at luminosities {ge} 10{sup 32}/cm{sup 2}/sec. Transverse polarized beam has also been provided to the BRAHMS experiment. Measurements that bear on the important question of the spin content of the nucleon are beginning to appear. Over the next 10 years, as the performance of polarized proton running at RHIC is further developed, the Spin Physics program at RHIC will provide definitive measurements of the contributions to the proton's spin of the gluon, the sea quarks and the orbital motion of the partons in the proton's wave function. We plan to extend the reach of our study of the role of spin in QCD with the development of ''eRHIC'', which will provide polarized e-p collisions to a new detector.
- Research Organization:
- BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY
- Sponsoring Organization:
- DOE/SC
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-98CH10886
- OSTI ID:
- 897800
- Report Number(s):
- BNL--77377-2007-CP; YN0100000
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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