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AIP Conf. Proc. / Volume 972 / Issue 1

pp Collisions at RHIC

AIP Conf. Proc. -- January 24, 2008 -- Volume 972, pp. 177-184
EXOTIC NUCLEI AND NUCLEAR/PARTICLE ASTROPHYSICS (II): Proceedings of the Carpathian Summer School of Physics 2007; doi:10.1063/1.2870279

Issue Date: 24 January 2008

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ABSTRACT

C. A. Gagliardi
Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA

RHIC,the world's first polarized hadron collider, has opened a newwindow to explore the spin structure of the nucleon. Collisionswith longitudinally polarized beams are providing information about the polarizationof the gluons in the proton and will provide informationabout the polarization of the anti-quarks. Collisions with transversely polarizedbeams may be yielding hints of parton orbital motion. Measurementswith unpolarized beams are exploring the range of applicability ofperturbative QCD and determining the non-perturbative inputs that are neededfor precise QCD calculations. A brief overview is given ofresults to date and planned future directions. ©2008 American Institute of Physics

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