Proton Structure and PHENIX Experiment

Abstract

We briefly summarize the important and critical roles that PHENIX Experiment has played in determining the proton's internal structure in terms of quarks and gluons, and their dynamics. Some pioneering measurements by PHENIX Experiment on the motion and polarization of quarks and gluons, as well as their correlations inside a fast moving proton are presented. Some future opportunities and potentials of PHENIX Experiment are also discussed.

Comments: 18 pages, 9 figures, invited mini-review to be published in a special section on "PHYSICS at PHENIX, 15 years of discoveries" by the journal of Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics