The Beauty of Spin

Abstract

I review recent developments in theoretical spin physics. Topics include pion production in nucleon-nucleon collisions, the implications of heavy quark spin symmetry for heavy hadron molecules, the nucleon electric dipole form factors and ab initio calculations of the width of hadron resonances. A few spin physics high-lights from experiments at the COSY accelerator are also discussed.

Comments: Opening talk, 19th International Spin Physics Symposium (SPIN2010), Sept.27-Oct.2, 2010, Juelich, Germany