Nucleon Spin Structure with hadronic collisions at COMPASS
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-08-03 v1
Abstract
In order to illustrate the capabilities of COMPASS using a hadronic beam, I review some of the azimuthal asymmetries in hadronic collisions, that allow for the extraction of transversity, Sivers and Boer-Mulders functions, necessary to explore the partonic spin structure of the nucleon. I also report on some Monte Carlo simulations of such asymmetries for the production of Drell-Yan lepton pairs from the collision of high-energy pions on a transversely polarized proton target.
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@article{arxiv.0708.0232,
title = {Nucleon Spin Structure with hadronic collisions at COMPASS},
author = {Marco Radici and Francesco Conti and Alessandro Bacchetta and Andrea Bianconi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.0232},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
talk delivered to the "International Workshop on Structure and Spectroscopy", Freiburg, March 19-21, 2007; 18 pages, RevTeX4 style, 8 figures with 10 .eps files