Transverse Spin and Rhic
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The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory is the first accelerator facility that can accelerate, store and collide spin polarized proton beams. This development enables a physics program aimed at understanding how the spin of the proton results from its quark and gluon substructures. Spin states that are either parallel (longitudinal) or perpendicular (transverse) to the proton momentum reveal important insight into the structure of the proton. This talk outlines future plans for further studies of transverse spin physics at RHIC.
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