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Azimuthal asymmetries from unpolarized data at COMPASS

The investigation of transverse spin and transverse momentum effects in the nucleon is one of the key physics programs of the COMPASS experiment at CERN. COMPASS investigates these effects scattering 160 GeV/c muons off a fixed NH$_{3}$ or $^{6}$LiD target. The azimuthal asymmetries which appear in...

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Autor principal: Schill, C.
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2011
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/1363173
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Sumario:The investigation of transverse spin and transverse momentum effects in the nucleon is one of the key physics programs of the COMPASS experiment at CERN. COMPASS investigates these effects scattering 160 GeV/c muons off a fixed NH$_{3}$ or $^{6}$LiD target. The azimuthal asymmetries which appear in the cross-section of semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering on an unpolarized target have been measured. These asymmetries give insight into the intrinsic transverse momentum of the quarks in the nucleon by the Cahn effect and into a possible correlation between transverse momentum and transverse spin. New results for azimuthal asymmetries of single hadrons produced in scattering muons off an unpolarized $^{6}$LiD target are presented.