Bochum 2009 – wissenschaftliches Programm

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HK: Fachverband Hadronen und Kerne

HK 69: Hadron Structure and Spectroscopy I

HK 69.5: Vortrag

Donnerstag, 19. März 2009, 18:00–18:15, H-ZO 20

COMPASS Measurements with Hadron Beams — •Jan Michael Friedrich — Physik Department E18, Technische Universität München, 85748 Garching

Muon and hadron beams from the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron are used in the COMPASS experiment for high-energy scattering reactions off fixed targets, aiming at measurements of non-perturbative aspects of quantum chromodynamics.

With pion beams, the meson spectrum can be examined via diffractive dissociation, where the existence of hybrid or exotic states is a much discussed issue. The double-diffractive process of central production, which can be measured also with a proton beam, is a promising approach for the search for glueballs. At extremely small momentum transfer, electromagnetic processes are accessible via the Primakoff effect and aim at the determination of QCD low energy constants as the pion polarisability and the chiral anomaly.

The muon program, focused on deep inelastic scattering, took place in the years 2002 to 2007. During this time, in autumn 2004, also a first pilot run with a pion beam was taken with the focus on diffractive and Primakoff measurements. Preliminary results and conclusions are presented.

Data taking with a pion beam was resumed in 2008, where large statistics for diffractive scattering was collected. First insights, also in view of the findings of previous experiments, are presented, as well as the planning for continuation of data taking in 2009.