QCD spin physics: Status and prospects for relativistic heavy-ion collider

WERNER VOGELSANG

RIKEN-BNL Research Center and BNL Nuclear Theory, Brookhaven National

Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA

E-mail: vogelsan@quark.phy.bnl.gov

Abstract. We review some of the recent developments in QCD spin physics and high-light the spin physics program now underway at RHIC.

Keywords. Spin structure of the nucleon; polarized proton--proton scattering; perturbative QCD.

PACS Nos 13.88+e; 12.38.-t; 25.40.Ep