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International Committee for

High Energy Spin Physics Workshop

The Yerevan Physics Institute is organizing the X^th International Workshop on High Energy Spin Physics, which will take place at Nor Amberd Conference Centre of YerPhI located at 35 km from Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, on a picturesque slope of Mt. Aragats, 2000 m high above sea level, from June 30 till July 3, 2002.

<Picture of Nor Amberd Conference Centre>

Spin Physics in the quark-gluon domain of the nucleon started from pioneering experiments performed at SLAC (USA) more than 20 years ago and revealed large spin dependence in deep inelastic e-p scattering. More recently the EMC and successive experiments showed that the quark contribution to the spin of the proton is small, giving rise to the famous “spin crisis”. In development of spin physics a crucial role was played by well-known sum rules. Today spin physics has many achievements : experimental spin-dependent structure functions for proton, neutron, and deuterium; measured polarized parton distributions; first steps towards measuring polarized gluon distribution, orbital angular momenta of partons and nucleon transverse spin structure.

The programme will cover topics in

• spin physics and QCD,
• spin physics beyond the Standard Model,
• spin structure of nucleon,
• experimental data on spin physics,
• acceleration and storage of polarized beams,
• polarized solid and gas jet targets and storage cells,
• polarimeters for high energy polarized beams,
• polarization and heavy ion physics,
• related problems.

The meeting will provide an opportunity to bring together theoretical and experimental community involved in the research and developments in high and intermediate energy spin physics. In each field an attempt will be made to single out the most interesting current results and problems.

Detailed day by day programme will be included in this web site later.

N.Akopov (YerPhI), M.Amaryan (NIKHEF), R.Avakian (YerPhI), S.Belostotski (St.Petersburg), N.Bianchi (Frascati), P.Bosted (Massachusetts), Bruell Antje (MIT), V.Burkert (TJNAF), C.De Jager (TJNAF), M.Dueren (Giessen), A.Fantoni (Frascati), S.Frullani (Roma), V.Ghazhikhanian (UCLA), H.Jackson (ANL), X.Ji (Maryland), R.Kalser (Glasgow), A.Kotzinian (CERN), W.Lorenzon (Michigan), R.Milner (MIT), V.Muccifora (Frascati), W.Nowak (DESY-Zeuthen), K.Rith (Erlangen), D.Ryckbosch (Gent), M.Sargsyan (Florida), I.Savin (JINR), A.Schaefer (Regensburg), E.Steffens (Erlangen), M.Strikman (Pennsylvania), and others.

Time allotted for an invited talk should not exceed 30 minutes, and that for an original reports – 15 minutes. The contributions presented will be published soon after the Workshop and will be sent out to all registered persons. The participants are asked to submit to the Organizing Committee original reports (together with electronic Word version of each), including tables, figures, and references. The format of submitted papers should be within 10 pages for invited talks and 4 pages for all other presentations.

For the participants who will inform the organizers about their arrival date, time, and flight number a few days before the Workshop the transportation from/to the Yerevan “Zvartnots” airport will be provided.

The registration fee will be US $200 (in cash only). It will include transportation from the airport to Nor Amberd and back, accommodation and meals, coffee breaks, banquet, social events, and a copy of the Workshop Proceedings. The fee will be collected during the registration of the participants.

Armenian entry visa (those who need it) can be directly received from the Yerevan airport upon arrival.

Robert Avakian (Yerevan) - Co-Chairman

Erhard Steffens (Erlangen) - Co-Chairman

Norair Akopov (Yerevan) akopov@jerewan1.yerphi.am

Moskov Amaryan (Amsterdam) amarian@hermes.desy.de

Albert Avetisyan (Yerevan) albert@jerewan1.yerphi.am

Armen Manukyan manar@uniphi.yerphi.am

Klaus Rith (Erlangen) rith@pi2wsa.physik.uni-erlangen.de

Dirk Ryckbosch (Gent) dirk@inwfsun1.rug.ac.be

A.Yessin (Yerevan) intern@uniphi.yerphi.am

Yerevan Physics Institute Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg

ravakian@hermes.desy.de steffens@physik.uni-erlangen.de

Details about the Yerevan Physics Institute may be found while visiting http://www.yerphi.am. For some useful information about Armenia see http://www.yerphi.am/intern/tour.html.