COMPASS RESULTS ON TMD OBSERVABLES

Abstract

The study of the transverse spin and transverse momentum structure of the nucleon is an important part of the scientific program of COMPASS, a fixed target experiment taking data at the CERN SPS since 2002. In these ten years COMPASS has produced a number of interesting results by measuring the forward going hadrons produced in deep inelastic scattering of a 160 GeV muon beam off polarized deuteron and proton targets. The COMPASS contribution to the understanding of the transverse structure of the nucleon, and the possible future contributions, are briefly reviewed here.