Speaker
Oleg Eyser
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Description
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory is the world's only polarized proton collider with center-of-mass energies up to 500 GeV and polarizations of about 60% for each proton beam. It provides unique opportunities to study the spin structure in hadronic systems and opens new kinematic regions compared to deep inelastic scattering. The three pillars of the RHIC spin program cover the gluon polarization, sea quark helicity distributions, and transverse spin effects in hadronic systems. We will summarize recent results and discuss near term plans and their implications on parton distribution functions in the collinear and transverse momentum dependent frameworks.
Author
Oleg Eyser
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
