Polarized Structure Functions in QCD

Abstract

We review the nucleon's polarized structure functions from the viewpoint of gauge invariant, nonlocal light-cone operators in QCD. We discuss a systematic treatment of the polarized structure functions and the corresponding parton distribution functions. We also address a question of what information on the structure of Nature will be obtained from the future polarized experiments. From this point of view, we will discuss the W gamma production at RHIC polarized experiment.

Comments: 8 pages, 5 Postscript figures, Invited talk presented at the Workshop on Lepton Scattering, Hadrons and QCD, Adelaide, March 26 -- April 6, 2001