Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2001-12-13
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
6 pages, 3 figures in eps and 1 in jpg, talk given at XXXI International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics, Sept 1-7, 2001,
Scientific paper
COMPASS, a new fixed target experiment at CERN, aimed at the study of nucleon spin structure and hadron spectroscopy, has started to collect physics data in Autumn 2001. This paper describes the COMPASS apparatus and the measurement of the gluon polarisation $\Delta G /G$. The apparatus consists in a solid state polarised target and a two stage spectro-meter with high resolution tracking, particle identification and calorimetry, capable of standing high event rates. COMPASS measures the longitudinal spin asymmetry of open charm production in polarised deep inelastic muon nucleon scattering: this asymmetry is directly related to $\Delta G$ since at COMPASS energies open charm is essentially produced by photon gluon fusion only. A second channel, used to access $\Delta G$ with higher statistics, is the production of correlated high $p_T$ hadron pairs.
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