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RHIC Spin Workshop - Scientific Program

(last updated April 15, 1998)
Monday, April 27
09:00Welcome from the RIKEN-BNL Center -- Larry Trueman
Workshop introduction from committee -- Gerry Bunce
09:15RHIC spin collider--physics of accelerating polarized protons and plans -- Thomas Roser
09:45RHIC progress and schedule -- (Satoshi Ozaki or Mike Harrison)
10:15Break

10:30Begin 1.5 day mini-workshop on gluons at RHIC
10:30Introduction to Mini-workshop on gluons -- Naohito Saito
Unpolarized gluons--what do we know?
10:45Unpolarized gluon distribution uncertainties and direct photon measurements -- Steve Kuhlmann of CDF/Argonne
11:30Resummation and intrinsic p_T -- George Sterman
12:00Lunch
Polarized gluons
2:00Experimental information from DIS -- Toshiaki Shibata
2:30Bremsstrahlung Model of gluon polarization -- Dennis Sivers
3:00How to extract gluon polarization using RHIC probes -- a critical analysis -- Jacques Soffer
03:30Break
RHIC probes of the gluon
4:00Direct photon at STAR -- Steve Vigdor
4:20Direct photon at Phenix -- Yuji Goto
4:40Jets--STAR -- Steve Heppelmann (may need to be Tues. morning)
5:00Jets--Phenix -- Guanghua Xu
5:20Open Charm--PHENIX -- Melynda Brooks
5:40J/psi--Phenix -- Naoki Hayashi
06:00Break for Dinner
Monday evening
Polarimetry at RHIC
7:30Introduction -- Yousef Makdisi
8:00RHIC pion polarimeter -- Hal Spinka
8:20Pion polarimetry issues -- Igor Alekseev
8:40Pi^0 polarimetry for RHIC -- Sergei Nurushev
9:00Polarimetry with pp elastic scattering at t=1 -- Vadim Kanavets
9:20-A CNI polarimeter for RHIC -- Kenichi Imai
9:40-p+C CNI polarimeter -- Douglas Fields
10:00Luminosity issues -- Dave Underwood
10:20Polarized target proposal and status -- (Aldo Penzo)
Tuesday morning, April 28
9Gauge invariant quark and gluon angular momentum distributions -- Sergei Bashinsky
9:30Physics limitations from the detector--STAR -- Dave Underwood
10:00Uncertainties in measurement -- Akio Ogawa and Yuji Goto
10:30Break
Uncertainties in interpretation
11:00Next to leading order and parton spin distributions -- Basim Kamal
11:30Heavy flavor -- Andy Contogouris
12:00ep spin physics future--HERA -- Albert de Roeck
12:30Discussion--open questions for gluon measurements at RHIC -- Naohito Saito
10:30End of mini-workshop on gluons

01:00Lunch
Tuesday afternoon, April 28
Accelerator spin issues and preparation
2:00Introduction--plans and schedule -- Mike Syphers, Project Manager
2:20AGS rf dipole experiment -- Mei Bai
2:40-How do we reach 70% polarization? -- Haixin Huang
3:00Siberian snake magnet construction -- Eric Willen
03:15Break
3:30Physics Colloquium--Spin of the proton: hard QCD probes of hadron structure -- Bob Jaffe
5:00tour of helical magnet winder, RHIC, Star, Phenix
7:30dinner at Paula Jean's Supper Club, East Setauket
*** Eli Yamin jazz trio after dinner ***
Wednesday, April 29
9Polarized neutrons at RHIC --Ernest Courant
9:15end of Accelerator session
Quark and anti-quark polarization at RHIC--W production
9:20-STAR -- Leslie Bland
9:40-Phenix -- Naohito Saito
Parity violation searches at RHIC
10:00Sensitivity to new physics -- Jean-Marc Virey
10:30STAR parity violation search with jets -- Geary Eppley
10:50Break
11:00Could large CP and/or T-violating asymmetries be detected in polarized proton collisions at RHIC? -- Vladimir Rykov
11:15The usefulness of positivity in spin physics -- Jacques Soffer
Transversity
11:30Drell-Yan at RHIC -- Werner Vogelsang
12:00Studies of transversity distribution at RHIC -- Shunzo Kumano
12:30Probing transversity with 2 pions at RHIC -- Jian Tang
01:00Lunch
2:00Polarized lambda production in pp, measurement of polarized fragmentation functions -- Daniel de Florian
Single transverse spin--high p_T--at RHIC
2:30Single spin asymmetries and higher twist -- George Sterman
3:00The Brahms experiment and spin -- Flemming Videbaek
03:15Break
Small angle scattering and transverse spin
3:30Bounds on Helicity Amplitudes at low momentum transfer -- Nigel Buttimore
4:00The odderon and spin dependence of pp elastic scattering -- Larry Trueman
4:20The pp2pp experiment -- Wlodek Guryn
4:45Feasibility of DIS (polarized ep collider) at RHIC -- George Igo
05:15WORKSHOP ENDS
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