Brookhaven - going for gold

Experiments using polarized (spin oriented) protons have a promising future at the Laboratory. Polarized sources are being improved considerably, and the advent of the Booster will enable accumulation of polarized beams before injection into the main ring. Adding these factors together indicates the possibility of colliding polarized proton beams in the proposed RHIC collider (of which more later) with a luminosity as high as 1032 and an energy of 350 GeV. The newcomer to the programme at the AGS is the series of experiments with light ion beams drawn from the nearby tandem. These began last October with oxygen-8 and silicon-14 beams at energies up to 15 GeV per nucleon and 5x108 accelerated ions per pulse for oxygen. (orig./HSI).