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Summary

The acceleration of the polarized protons at RHIC will open a new era of the high energy spin physics. Among a wealth of spin physics capability, expected sensitivities for the spin structure of the nucleon are presented.

The gluon helicity distribution will be measured via high- prompt photon productions. A typical error of the measurement will be 3-20% at 0.1<x<0.3 in pp collisions at GeV, and 1-5% at 0.05<x<0.1 in pp collisions at GeV. Optional check with heavy quark production will be helpful for further studies.

The anti-quark helicity distribution will be extracted from the asymmetry for Drell-Yan productions. W production will provide tool for flavor decomposition of anti-quark helicity, as well as the quark helicity distributions.



Naohito Saito
July 3, 1996