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The Spin Structure of the Nucleon; A COMPASS Perspective

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The COMPASS experiment at CERN is carrying on an experimental investigation of the spin structure of the nucleon, covering both longitudinal and transverse spin phenomena. In the first case, the central topic is the direct measurement of the gluon polarisation with the hope to solve the spin crisis first observed by EMC. The result shows that Δg/g is small around x g ≃0.1, and its first moment should not be larger than 0.2—0.3 in absolute value. About transverse spin effects, evidence is given for new phenomena, associated with transverse momentum dependent distribution and fragmentation functions.

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Bressan, A. The Spin Structure of the Nucleon; A COMPASS Perspective. Found Phys 40, 1030–1041 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-009-9405-7

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