Speaker
Prof.
Kenneth Barish
(UC Riverside)
Summary
The PHENIX experiment utilizes longitudinally and transversely polarized proton collisions with up to 510 GeV center of mass energy at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) to study the spin structure of the proton. Topics include the measurement of anti-quark helicity distribution functions via W production, the measurement of gluon helicity distribution functions, and the investigation of different mechanisms for the generation of transverse single spin asymmetries. We have reached an era of high enough luminosity and polarization (RHIC-II) to begin our investigation of low cross-section channels, such a the W. In this talk I will show recent results and discuss future prospects.
Primary author
Prof.
Kenneth Barish
(UC Riverside)
