Session D7 - Hadron Physics.
ORAL session, Saturday afternoon, May 01
Governor's Square 16, Adam's Mark Hotel
RHIC has delivered transversely and longitudinally polarized proton-proton collisions at an energy of sqrt(s)= 200 GeV to the STAR detector in FY2003. An integrated luminosity of approximately 200 nb(-1) was recorded at an average polarization per beam near 25Using single tower and jet patch energy thresholds, electromagnetic calorimeters were used to trigger on events containing high transverse momentum particles. We present the status of jet reconstruction from the recent proton-proton run and compare the results of inclusive jet asymmetries to NLO perturbative QCD calculations. Inclusive jet asymmetries from longitudinally polarized proton-proton collisions are related to partonic processes which are predicted to be sensitive to the polarized gluon distribution function of the proton.