 
  
  
  
  
The choice of colliding-beam energy for polarized DY physics is important since the 
cross sections are small and the region in which large polarization 
effects are most likely to be observed is  . The region,
. The region,
 is inaccessible due to the steeply falling structure function
 is inaccessible due to the steeply falling structure function  .
Optimization of the collision energy can be accomplished by reducing the DY cross section,
.
Optimization of the collision energy can be accomplished by reducing the DY cross section,

to the scaling form,
From Appendix A one sees that the
acceptance of a spectrometer depends only on  and
 and  .  This means that
.  This means that
 may be measured with roughly equal acceptance at
 may be measured with roughly equal acceptance at  ,
,
 or
 or   ,
,  ; however, from Eq.  2
the cross section at
; however, from Eq.  2
the cross section at  will be 16 times larger.
 will be 16 times larger. 
Finally, the luminosity of RHIC for pp collisions is expected to scale as  .
Thus, the event rate,
.
Thus, the event rate, 
