SENSITIVITY TO A NEW RIGHT-HANDED CHARGED CURRENT IN POLARIZED HADRONIC COLLISIONS AT RHIC

In the context of general SU(2)(L) circle times SU(2)(R) circle times U(1) models a relatively light W' is still allowed in some scenarios w ith a heavy right-handed neutrino and a quark mixing matrix U-R close to unity, We explore the consequences of the presence of this new char ged current on the parity violating spin asymmetries which could be in duced in one-jet inclusive production in polarized proton-proton or pr oton-neutron collisions. Such measurements could be performed within a few years at the Brookhaven Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) ru nning part of the time as a polarized hadronic collider. (C) 1997 Else vier Science B.V.