Published May 1998 | Version v1
Journal article

Polarized parton distributions and QCD spin tests at RHIC-BNL

Creators

  • 1. Centre de Physique Theorique, CNRS Luminy, Marseille (France)

Description

The RHIC facility at BNL will be operating soon, part of the year, as a polarized proton-proton collider. This will allow the undertaking of a vast spin physics programme, mainly by the two large detectors PHENIX and STAR. We review some theoretical aspects of this research programme which will allow, firstly to improve our present knowledge on polarized quark, gluon and sea distributions in a nucleon, secondly to perform novel QCD spin tests and finally, perhaps, to uncover some new physics. (author)

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Acta Physica Polonica. Series B
Journal Volume
29
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 1303-1314
ISSN
0587-4254

Conference

Title
Cracow Epiphany Conference on Spin Effects in Particle Physics and Tempus Workshop
Dates
9-11 Jan 1998
Place
Cracow (Poland)

Optional Information

Notes
18 refs, 6 figs