Transverse spin effects at COMPASS
โ Scribed by C. Schill
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 311 KB
- Volume
- 198
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0920-5632
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โฆ Synopsis
The investigation of transverse spin and transverse momentum effects in deep inelastic scattering is one of the key physics programs of the COMPASS collaboration. In the years 2002-2004 COMPASS took data scattering 160 GeV muons on a transversely polarized 6 LiD target. In 2007, a transversely polarized NH3 target was used. Three different channels to access the transversity distribution function have been analyzed: The azimuthal distribution of single hadrons, involving the Collins fragmentation function, the azimuthal dependence of the plane containing hadron pairs, involving the two-hadron interference fragmentation function, and the measurement of the transverse polarization of ฮป hyperons in the final state. Transverse quark momentum effects in a transversely polarized nucleon have been investigated by measuring the Sivers distribution function. Azimuthal asymmetries in unpolarized semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering give important information on the inner structure of the nucleon as well, and can be used to estimate both the quark transverse momentum kT in an unpolarized nucleon and to access the so-far unmeasured Boer-Mulders function. COMPASS has measured these asymmetries using spin-averaged 6 LiD data.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
The Drell-Yan process can be used to access Transverse Momentum Dependent Parton Distribution Functions (TMD PDFs), such as Boer-Mulders function, Sivers function and Transversity functions, providing complementary informations to what is known from Semi Inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering (SIDIS) d