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Transverse Spin and Transverse Momentum Eects at COMPASS

The study of transverse spin and transverse momentum eects is part of the scientic program of COMPASS, a xed target experiment at the CERN SPS. For these studies, a 160 GeV/c momentum muon beam is scattered on a transversely polarized nucleon target, and the scattered muon and the forward going hadr...

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Autor principal: Bradamante, Franco
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0217732309001224
http://cds.cern.ch/record/1495622
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Sumario:The study of transverse spin and transverse momentum eects is part of the scientic program of COMPASS, a xed target experiment at the CERN SPS. For these studies, a 160 GeV/c momentum muon beam is scattered on a transversely polarized nucleon target, and the scattered muon and the forward going hadrons produced in DIS processes are reconstructed and identied in a magnetic spectrometer. The measurements have been performed on a deuteron target in 2002, 2003 and 2004, and on a proton target in 2007. The main results obtained measuring single spin asymmetries are reviewed, with particular emphasis on the most recent proton measurements. After two years of spectroscopy measurements with hadron beams, in 2008 and 2009, the Collaboration will resume measurements with the muon beam and a transversely polarized target in 2010.