Abhay Deshpande

My Present physics activities:

• Teaching Physics 131 at Stony Brook, Fall'05
  
• Physics with Polarized Protons at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at BNL with the Phenix Detector
• PHENIX Spin Working Group Page
• RHIC Spin Accelerator Group Page
• PHENIX local polarimeter test at IP12 in RHIC RUN II (2001-2002)
• RHIC Polarimetry: p-C scattering in Coulomb Nuclear Interference region (CNI)
• Development of high energy proton beam polarimetry (the CNI Method for p-Carbon scattering) with the AGS-E950 Collaboration at BNL
• The Electron Ion Collider at BNL = eRHIC
  An electron beam facility to be built along side BNL's RHIC to enable polarized and unpolarized collisions between RHIC heavy ion and proton beams.
  

Recent Past:

• Study the structure of the proton with the ZEUS Collaboration at DESY
• The Structure Functions and Electroweak Physics Group.
• Exotics and Rare Phenomenon Physics Group
• Pol2000 Group: Electron beam polarization measurement for year 2000.
• Recent results from ZEUS
• Study the spin structure of the nucleon with the Spin Muon Collaboration (SMC) at CERN
• The Polarized Target Group
• The Physics Analysis Group: QCD Analysis of spin structure functions
• Recent publications from SMC
• The SPSC's and Cern Research Board's view on the final results from SMC.
• Physics with Polarized Proton and Electron Beams at HERA through "Future Physics at HERA Workshops":
• The 1995/96 Workshop
  
Subgroup: Polarized Protons and Electrons. See proceedings for details.
• The 1997 workshop dedicated to the study of "Physics with Polarized Protons and Electrons at HERA". See proceedings for details.
• The 1999 Workshop/Conference on Polarized Protons at High Energies: Accelerator Challenges and Physics Opportunities.
• Physics with TESLA*HERA (THERA) Collisions in far future

Other related physics activities around the world

• E142, E143, E154 and E155 Collaborations at SLAC
• The HERMES Experiment at DESY
• The COMPASS Experiment at CERN
• The STAR Experiment at RHIC
• Development of polarized sources
• Acceleration of polarized protons (accelerator groups)
• At DESY: HERA-Spin Program
• At BNL: The RHIC-Spin Program
• Renewed HERA-III activity: Possible polarized e-p, e-A and/or unpolarized e-p scattering at low x and Q2

Talks given in 2005

• What do we know about Nucleon Spin?, Colloquium, Science Festival'05 organized by the British Association of Advancement of Science,Trinity College, Dublin, September 5th, 2005
• Future Physics at RHIC, RHIC-AGS User's Meeting, June 23, 2005
• Physics Consequences of Various eRHIC Accelerator Designs, Review of the eRHIC ZDR by the Machind Advisory Committee, BNL, May 2005
  
• Lectures on Nucleon Spin , CTEQ Summer School, May 2005
• RHIC Spin and eRHIC, Experimental Issues, Presentation at the NSAC (Tribble) Subcommittee, April 3, 2005
  
• Physics and Prospects of RHIC Spin and eRHIC, Workshop on QCD in Nuclear and Hadronic Physics, Daresbury, UK, March 2005
  
• 1/2 + 1/2 + 1/2 = 1/10(?) Learning the nucleon spin algebra using RHIC, Colloquium, Stony Brook University, February 22, 2005

Talks given in 2004

• Future Facilities for Spin Physics, Spin 2004 Symposium, Trieste, Italy, Octobere 2004
  
• Future of Spin , 1st Summer School on QCD Spin Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory, June 6-12, 2004
• A Detector for eRHIC, NSAC Subcommittee Meeting at BNL, June 3-6, 2004
• RHIC AGS User's Meeting, May 2004, Forward Physics Workshop, eRHIC: The Collider, the Detector & low x issues
• RHIC AGS User's Meeting, May 2004, Spin Physics Workshop, PHENIX Spin Results
• Spin Physics at eRHIC, Ed Kinney, International Workshop on DIS, DIS2004, Slovakia, April 14-18, 2004
• Physics and Status of eRHIC,Workshop on Hadron Structure and Spectroscopy, Paris, March 1-3, 2004
• Physics and Status of the Electron Ion Collider, EIC2004, Electron Ion Collider Meeting, Jefferson Laboratory, March 15-17, 2004

Talks given in 2003

• First results from PHENIX on A_LL in neutral pion production, Nuclear/High energy physics seminar, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana, December 2003
• RIKEN-BNL Research Center Workshop "High pT Physics at RHIC"
• eRHIC: Physics, Detector and Status BNL Townmeeting on Future Physics at RHIC, December 3,4, 2003
  • A New Round of DIS Experiments HERA III/eRHIC Presentation by Prof. Allen Caldwell at this Town Meeting BNL
• RBRC Review: Phenix Local Polarimetry
• Exploring The Nucleon Spin: The Next Decade A Memorial Symposium for Prof. Vernon W. Hughes, Yale University, November 2003
  
• Measurement of single transverse spin asymmetry in forward neutron production at PHENIX: Longitudinally Polarized Beams at PHENIX DNP2003, Tucson AZ, November 2003
• Physics & The Status of eRHIC, Nuclear Physics Seminar, Penn State University, October 2003
• First Results from PHENIX: A_LL in pi0 production, Nuclear Physics Seminar, Penn State University, October 2003
• Spin Physics with eRHIC, Spin03, Dubna, Russia, September 16-20, 2003.
  
• Future Polarized Colliders,  Circum Pacific Conference on Nucleon Spin, Institute of Nuclear Theory, U. of Washington, Seattle, August 7, 2003
  
• The Quest for Nucleon Spin, Vernon W. Hughes, The Last Decade: 1993-2003, Symmetries and Spin 2003, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2003
  
• A Detector for eRHIC, eRHIC Accelerator miniworkshop, BNL, May 29, 2003
•  eRHIC at BNL: US Plans for a lepton-nucleon/nucleus collider, Perspectives of Hadronic Physics ICTP Trieste, Italy, May 16, 2003
• Quest for Nucleon Spin, at Stony Brook, April 2nd, 2003
• Spin Physics at RHIC, LBL, March 27, 2003