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The COMPASS fixed-target experiment at the CERN-SPS studies the structure and spectrum of hadrons. One important goal using hadron beams is the search for new states, in particular spin-exotic mesons and glueballs. As a first input to the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Frank Nerling

COMPASS is a multi-purpose fixed-target experiment at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron aimed at studying the structure and spectrum of hadrons. One primary goal is the search for new hadronic states, in particular spin-exotic mesons and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Boris Grube

The goal of the COMPASS experiment at CERN is to study the structure and dynamics of hadrons. The two-stage spectrometer used by the experiment has large acceptance and covers a wide kinematic range for charged as well as neutral particles…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-12-21 Boris Grube

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Experiment is a general purpose particle detector experiment located at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. In 2008, the LHC beam was commissioned and successfully steered through the CMS detector. First…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Toyoko J. Orimoto

COMPASS is a fixed target experiment presently running at CERN. In 2002, 2003, and 2004 the experiment used a 160 GeV polarized muon beam coming from SPS and scattered off a $^6$LiD target. The nucleons in the target can be polarized either…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-08-23 Paolo Pagano

The COMPASS experiment is a fixed-target high-energy physics experiment that has been collecting data for 20 years (2002 to 2022) at the M2 beamline (SPS, North Area) at CERN. One of the goals of the experiment's broad physics program was…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-10-11 Siranush Asatryan

COMPASS is a fixed target experiment at the CERN SPS, with a rich physics program focused on nucleon spin structure and on hadron spectroscopy. One of the main goals of the spin program is the measurement of the transverse spin distribution…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 By COMPASS Collaboration

The study of transverse spin and transverse momentum effects is an important part of the scientific program of COMPASS, a fixed target experiment at the CERN SPS taking data since 2002. The studies are carried on by measuring the hadrons…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-15 Anna Martin

COMPASS is a multi-purpose fixed-target experiment at CERN aimed at studying the structure and spectrum of hadrons. It has collected the so far world's largest data set on diffractive production of the $K^-\pi^-\pi^+$ decay, which in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-01-03 S. Wallner

We describe a pion physics program attainable with the CERN COMPASS spectrometer, involving tracking detectors and an electromagnetic calorimeter. COMPASS can realize state-of-the-art pion beam hybrid meson and meson radiative transition…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Murray Moinester , Suh Urk Chung

SHiP (Search for Hidden Particles) is a proposed experiment to be installed at CERN, with the aim of exploring the high intensity beam frontier to investigate the so-called Hidden sector. Since the SPS proton beam interacting with the SHiP…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-22 Liliana Congedo

COMPASS at CERN is preparing for a new series of measurements on the nucleon structure comprising deep virtual Compton scattering and hard exclusive meson production using muon beams, as well as Drell-Yan reactions using a polarised proton…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-06-14 Gerhard K. Mallot

We examine the potential of the COMPASS experiment at CERN to study color transparency via exclusive vector meson production in hard muon-nucleus scattering. It is demonstrated that COMPASS has high sensitivity to test this important…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrzej Sandacz , Oleg A. Grajek , Murray Moinester , Eli Piasetzky

The COMPASS experiment at CERN is well designed for light-hadron spectroscopy with emphasis on the detection of new states, in particular the search for $J^{PC}$-exotic states and glueballs. We have collected data with 190 GeV/c charged…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Frank Nerling

One of the main aims of the COMPASS experiment at CERN is the study of the spin structure of the nucleon and in particular the determination of the gluon polarization in the nucleon. We present some new results of 2002-2003 data analysis.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-05-29 S. Panebianco

Transverse spin physics is an important part of the scientific programme of the COMPASS experiment at CERN, which started taking data in 2002, scattering 160 GeV/c muon beam on a polarized $^6$LiD target. The analysis of the data taken with…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Bradamante

COMPASS is a fixed target experiment at CERN investigating the spin structure of the nucleon and performing hadron spectroscopy. The transverse spin structure of the nucleon is studied in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering of 160…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 C. Schill

In the list of the main items studied by the CERN COMPASS experiment there are the transverse spin and momentum effects visible in the azimuthal distributions of hadrons produced in the deep inelastic scattering. In the years 2002-2004…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Andrea Bressan

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…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Federica Sozzi

COMPASS is a fixed-target high energy physics experiment at the SPS at CERN \cite{Abbon:2007pq}. One of the important objectives of the experiment is the exploration of the transverse spin structure of the nucleon via spin dependent…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-12 Bakur Parsamyan