Parity-violating Spin Asymmetries at RHIC
April 26 & 27, 2007
(all talks will be in the Large Seminar Room)
| Thursday, April 26 | ||
| Motivation for W physics at RHIC (Chair: L. Trueman) | ||
| 8:30 - 9:00 |
Registration |
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| 9:00 - 9:05 |
N. Samios |
Welcome |
| 9:05 - 9:50 | J. Soffer |
Opening talk: Spin and W physics
at RHIC-BNL |
| 9:50 - 10:35 | C. Weiss |
Sea quark polarization and nucleon
structure |
| 10:35 - 11:00 | (coffee) |
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| 11:00 - 11:30 |
M. Bai |
Polarized protons in RHIC at 500 GeV |
| 11:30 - 12:15 | P. Nadolsky |
Single-spin asymmetries in W
and Z boson production + RhicBos update |
| 12:15 - 12:45 |
S. Arnold |
Longitudinal
single-spin asymmetries in pp scattering with a hadronic final state |
| 12:45 - 14:00 |
(lunch) |
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| Determinations of polarized sea distributions
in SIDIS (Chair: G. Bunce) |
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| 14:00 - 14:30 |
J.P. Chen |
Spin-flavor decomposition |
| 14:30 - 15:00 |
H. Santos |
Inclusive
and SIDIS at COMPASS |
| 15:00 - 15:30 |
M. Stratmann |
Global
analysis of fragmentation functions and their uncertainties |
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
(coffee) |
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| 16:00 - 16:30 |
E. Kinney |
Semi-inclusive
deep inelastic scattering at HERMES and at the proposed EIC |
| 16:30 - 17:00 |
X. Jiang |
Polarized
parton distributions and experiments at Jefferson Lab |
| 17:00 |
Discussion:
SIDIS |
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| Friday, April 27 |
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| W physics experiments at RHIC (Chairs: M.
Perdekamp / B. Surrow) |
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| 9:00 - 9:45 |
R. Seidl |
Plans and prospects for W-physics with
PHENIX |
| 9:45 - 10:30 |
F. Simon | Plans and prospects for W-physics with STAR |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | (coffee) | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | M. Rijssenbeek |
W reconstruction at
the Tevatron and SPS |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Discussion: RHIC detector
capabilities |
|
| 12:30 - 14:00 |
(lunch) |
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| Theory studies and other opportunities in W physics (Chair: W. Vogelsang) | ||
| 14:00 - 14:30 | A. Mukherjee |
Threshold resummation for W
production at RHIC |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | H. Yokoya |
Future possibilities for W physics |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | |
Discussion: tasks for
theory and impact of RHIC W data on global pdf analysis |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | (coffee) |
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| 16:00 - 16:30 |
J.C. Peng |
Flavor
structure of the nucleon
and W-production |
| 16:30 - 17:00 |
P. Souder |
Experiments on Parity Violation
at JLab |