Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
2009-02-02
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
4 pages, 2 figures, proceedings of 16th International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS 2008), L
Scientific paper
The study of transverse spin effects is part of the scientific program of COMPASS, a fixed target experiment at the CERN SPS. COMPASS investigates the transversity PDFs in semi-inclusive DIS, using a longitudinally polarized muon beam of 160 GeV/c impinging on a transversely polarized target. From 2002 to 2004, data have been collected using a $^6$LiD target transversely polarized. Transversity has been measured using different quark polarimeters: the azimuthal distribution of single hadrons, the azimuthal dependence of the plane containing hadron pairs, and the measurement of the transverse polarization of baryons ($\Lambda$ hyperons). All the asymmetries have been found to be small, and compatible with zero, a result which has been interpreted as a cancellation between the u and d-quark contributions. In 2007 COMPASS has taken data using a NH$_3$ polarized proton target which will give complementary information on transverse spin effects.
for the COMPASS Collaboration
Sozzi Federica
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