https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20158502019
New results on transverse spin asymmetries from COMPASS
1 Dipartimento di Fisica Generale, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy
2 INFN, Sezione di Torino, Via P. Giuria 1, I-10125 Torino, Italy
a e-mail: bakur.parsamyan@cern.ch
Published online: 23 January 2015
One of the important objectives of the COMPASS experiment is the exploration of transverse spin structure of nucleon via spin (in)dependent azimuthal asymmetries in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering (SIDIS) of polarized leptons (and soon also Drell-Yan (DY) reactions with π−) off transversely polarized target. For this purpose a series of measurements were made in COMPASS, using 160 GeV/c longitudinally polarized muon beam and polarized 6 LiD and NH3 targets and are foreseen with 190 GeV/c π− beam on polarized NH3. The experimental results obtained by COMPASS for azimuthal effects in SIDIS play an important role in the general understanding of the three-dimensional nature of the nucleon and are widely used in theoretical analyses and global data fits. Future first ever polarized DY-data from COMPASS compared with SIDIS results will open a new chapter probing general principles of QCD TMD-formalism. In this review main focus will be given to the very recent COMPASS results obtained for SIDIS transverse spin asymmetries from four “Drell-Yan” Q2-ranges.
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