Published June 20, 2003
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Journal article
The physics of RHIC spin
Creators
- 1. Riken BNL Research Center, Upton, NY 11973 (United States)
- 2. Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973 (United States)
Description
We have started a program of colliding polarized protons in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven. This is the first polarized proton collider. We plan to probe the spin structure of the proton with strongly interacting probes, polarized quarks and gluons, to complement work with polarized lepton probes which observed that only 25% of the proton spin is carried by quarks and anti-quarks. We will also use parity violation to search for new physics, such as quark substructure or a Z' boson. The collider is unique. We will be probing QCD with a completely new tool
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1063/1.1594397;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- AIP Conference Proceedings
- Journal Volume
- 672
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 100-109
- ISSN
- 0094-243X
- CODEN
- APCPCS
Conference
- Title
- 31. Coral Gables conference on high energy physics and cosmology
- Dates
- 11-14 Dec 2002
- Place
- Fort Lauderdale, FL (United States)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 35052953
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S73: NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- BROOKHAVEN RHIC; COLLIDING BEAMS; DEEP INELASTIC HEAVY ION REACTIONS; GLUONS; P INVARIANCE; PARTICLE STRUCTURE; POLARIZED BEAMS; PROTON BEAMS; PROTONS; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; QUARK-QUARK INTERACTIONS; QUARKS; SPIN; Z NEUTRAL BOSONS
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCELERATORS; ANGULAR MOMENTUM; BARYONS; BEAMS; BOSONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; HADRONS; HEAVY ION ACCELERATORS; HEAVY ION REACTIONS; INTERACTIONS; INTERMEDIATE BOSONS; INTERMEDIATE VECTOR BOSONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; NUCLEON BEAMS; NUCLEONS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; STORAGE RINGS
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2003 American Institute of Physics