Published May 1, 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

Future Drell-Yan measurements in COMPASS

  • 1. LIP - Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de PartIculas, Av. Elias Garcia, 14, 1000-149 Lisboa (Portugal)

Description

The COMPASS experiment at CERN studies the spin structure of the nucleon, using its unique polarized target in both longitudinal and transverse polarization modes. The future Drell-Yan measurement by the COMPASS collaboration proposes to access the transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions, namely Sivers and Boer-Mulders functions. The Drell-Yan process with unpolarized and with transversely polarized target is a very promising tool for this purpose, complementary to the semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering measurements available from COMPASS, HERMES and JLab experiments. Also interesting related studies like the J/ψ-Drell-Yan duality are proposed. The physics case, as well as the most important technical aspects of this project are presented.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/295/1/012163

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. Conference Series (Online)
Journal Volume
295
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
[8 p.]
ISSN
1742-6596

Conference

Title
19. international spin physics symposium
Acronym
SPIN2010
Dates
27 Sep - 2 Oct 2010
Place
Juelich (Germany)

Optional Information

Collaborations
COMPASS Collaboration