The RHIC SPIN Program

E.C. ASCHENAUER; RODOLFO SASSOT; MARCO STRATMANN; OTROS AUTORES

Newport Beach California

Workshop; Fall Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics:; 2013

American Physical Society

This document summarizes recent achievements of the RHIC spin program and their impact on our understanding of the nucleon?s spin structure, i.e. the individual parton (quarks and gluons) contributions to the helicity structure of the nucleon and to understand the origin of the transverse spin phenomena. Open questions are identified and a suite of future measurements with polarized beams at RHIC to address them is laid out. Machine and detector requirements and upgrades are briefly discussed.