edited by M Anghinolfi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy), M Battaglieri (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy), & R De Vita (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy)

This volume contains the proceedings of the GDH 2002 symposium. It is a review of the most recent results on the nucleon spin structure and related sum rules using real and virtual photons. The latest theoretical developments and the new high precision data from different laboratories are presented and discussed. The book provides a comprehensive picture of the nucleon spin studies from the perturbative domain down to the resonance and low momentum transfer region.

• Introduction:
  • Introduction: GDH and Related Topics (M M Giannini)
• Theory:
  • MAID and the GDH Sum Rule in the Resonance Region (L Tiator)
  • Proton and Neutron Polarized Structure Functions from Low to High Q² (S Simula et al.)
• Experiments:
  • Experimental Results for the GDH Sum Rule on the Proton from Pion Threshold to 3 GeV (P Grabmayr)
  • Spin Physics at HERMES (A Fantoni)
• Instrumentation and Future Projects:
  • Progress in Scintillating Polarized Targets for Spin Physics (P Hautle et al.)
  • High Accuracy Polarization and Density Measurement of a Solid State Polarized Target (Ch Rohlof & H Dutz)
• Spin Structure Functions in Nucleons and Nuclei:
  • Measurement of the Helicity Asymmetry of the γp Cross Section Between 2.5 and 5.3 GeV (D I Sober et al.)
  • The Proton Structure Function F₂ in the Resonance Region (M Osipenko et al.)
• Helicity, Amplitudes, Resonance Structure, and Spin Polarizabilities:
  • Resonance Structure and Polarizability of the Nucleon (D Drechsel)
  • The Commissioning of the Hall-B Beamline of Jefferson Lab for Coherently Producing a Beam of Linearly-Polarized Photons (P L Cole et al.)
• Spin and Hard Scattering:
  • Polarization Observables and Forward-Backward Asymmetry in High-Energy Deuteron Photodisintegration within the Quark–Gluon Strings Model (V Yu Grishina et al.)
  • Polarization Phenomena by Deuteron Fragmentation into Pions (A Yu Illarionov et al.)
  • and other papers