Abstract
We present a few recent highlights from the COMPASS experiment at CERN, related to the nucleon spin and structure: the proton spin structure function g1 p (x) measured using 200 GeV polarized muons, together with a QCD fit of g1 world data; pion and kaon multiplicities in DIS in view of constraining quark fragmentation functions.The statistical precision on g1 p is improved by a factor of ~2 at low x. A reevaluation of the Bjorken sum rule based on COMPASS data alone confirms its validation within 9% accuracy. An NLO QCD fit to g1 world data leads to a value of the quark spin contribution to the nucleon spin ΔΣ, between 0.26 and 0.36 at Q2 = 3 (GeV/c)2 , the size of the uncertainty being driven by the unknown shape of the polarized parton distributions.The results on pion and kaon multiplicities produced in DIS of muons off an isoscalar target constitute an impressive data set of more than 400 points in π and 400 in K, covering a large kinematical domain in (x, z, Q2 ), which will be used in future NLO QCD fits to extract quark fragmentation functions into π and K. A LO fit is performed to extract the favoured and unfavoured quark fragmentation functions into pions.
Highlights
We present a few recent highlights from the COMPASS experiment at CERN, related to the nucleon spin and structure: the proton spin structure function g1p(x) measured using 200 GeV polarized muons, together with a QCD fit of g1 world data; pion and kaon multiplicities in DIS in view of constraining quark fragmentation functions
Recent COMPASS results are show on the spin structure function g1p(x) measured using a 200 GeV polarized muon beam. They improve the statistical precision by a factor of ~2 at low x
A re-evaluation of the Bjorken sum rule based on COMPASS data alone confirms its validation within 9% accuracy
Summary
The 1/2 nucleon spin can be decomposed along the longitudinal projection as follows. 1/2 = 1⁄2 + G + Lz, where represents the quark spin contribution, G the gluon spin one and Lz the contribution from the orbital angular momenta of quarks and gluons. The 1/2 nucleon spin can be decomposed along the longitudinal projection as follows. We present here COMPASS results on the proton longitudinal spin structure function g1p(x) [1]. The measurements were performed using 200 GeV polarized muons from the CERN SPS (tertiary beam), scattered off a longitudinally polarized NH3 target [2]. Results [1] are shown in Fig. together with previous results taken at 160 GeV [3] and earlier results from SMC [4]. The new data cover smaller x values, down to 0.0036. They improve the statistical precision of previous COMPASS data by a factor of about 2
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