Speaker
Summary
The PHENIX and STAR experiments at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider at Brookhaven
National Laboratory are carrying out a spin physics program in high-energy polarized proton
collisions at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV and 500 GeV to gain a deeper insight into the spin structure
and dynamics of the proton.
One of the main objectives of the spin physics program at RHIC is the precise determination
of the polarized gluon distribution function. Recent results will be shown on the measurement
of jet production and hadron production at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV suggesting a small, but non-zero spin
contribution of gluons to the proton spin. Recent results on the first measurements
of W-/W+ boson production in polarized p-p collisions will be shown along with a discussion of future prospects involving upgraded PHENIX and STAR detector systems.
