Polarized deep inelastic scattering experiments play a vital role in the exploration of the spin structure of the proton. The polarized proton-proton collider at RHIC provides direct access to the gluon spin distribution through longitudinal double spin asymmetry measurements of inclusive jets, pions, and dijets. This thesis presents the measurement of the dijet double differential cross-section in proton-proton collisions at center of mass energies of √s = 500 GeV. The data represent an integrated luminosity of 8.7 pb-1 recorded by the STAR detector during the 2009 RHIC run. A comprehensive jet analysis was performed to determine the ideal jet algorithm and jet parameters used in √s = 500 GeV collisions at the STAR detector. The cross-section is measured as a function of the dijet invariant mass (30 ≤ Mij ≤ 152 GeV) in the mid rapidity region with a maximum rapidity range of |ymax| ≤ 0.8. This result shows agreement with theoretical next-to-leading order pQCD calculations, motivating the use of dijet asymmetries at STAR to further constrain the shape of Δg(x).

<p>Spin-orbit interactions cause a global polarization [P] of Lambda (anti-Lambda) hyperons with the vorticity (or total angular momentum) in the participant collision zone. The strong magnetic field mainly created by the spectator protons would split the Lambda and anti-Lambda global polarization [Delta P]. Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) predicts topological charge fluctuation in vacuum, resulting in a chirality imbalance, or parity violation in a local domain. This would give rise to an imbalanced left- and right-handed Lambda (anti-Lambda) [Delta n], as well as a charge separation along the magnetic field, referred to as the chiral magnetic effect (CME). The latter can be characterized by the parity-even [Delta gamma] and parity-odd [Delta a1] observables. While measurements of the individual [Delta P], [Delta gamma], and [Delta a1] have not led to affirmative conclusions on the CME or the magnetic field, correlations among these observables may reveal new insights. We report exploratory measurements of event-by-event correlations between [Delta P] and [Delta gamma], and between [Delta n] and [Delta a1] by the STAR experiment in Au+Au collisions at 27 GeV. No correlations have been observed beyond statistical fluctuations. Future endeavor would be to extract an upper limit from the data as well as to apply the correlation analysis to other data samples.</p>