Physics with Polarized Beams--A tutorial for experimenters and
accelerator physicists

Lectures by Dr. Werner Vogelsang

November 20,27, December 4, Wednesdays at 3 pm in the 
Physics Large Seminar Room, Building 510, BNL

Synopsis
High energy QCD spin physics has been going through a period of
much excitement and rapid developments ever since the measurement
of the proton's spin-dependent deep-inelastic structure function
g_1 by the EMC more than a decade ago.  It has now entered its
prime, primarily thanks to the advent of the RHIC-Spin program.
The purpose of the lectures is to give an introduction into the
field, targeting an audience of accelerator physicists, experimenters,
and students.

The lectures will start with a brief summary of the tools needed
to describe spin in high-energy reactions.  We will then turn to
processes that are "deeply-inelastic" in a broad sense.  Such
processes include the classic deep-inelastic lepton-nucleon
scattering, and also many of the reactions relevant at RHIC-Spin.
We will describe how they may be described theoretically.  We will
review the knowledge about the spin structure of the nucleon gained
in the past, and discuss how measurements at RHIC and in other planned
experiments will improve it.  Topics in this context will be
perturbative QCD, spin-dependent quark and gluon parton distributions,
transversity, single-spin asymmetries, the nucleon spin sum rule,
off-forward parton distributions, nucleon form factors, and others.

Sponsored by the Center of Accelerator Physics