Six "beyond Collins and Sivers" transverse spin asymmetries at COMPASS
Abstract
COMPASS is a fixed-target high energy physics experiment at the SPS at CERN Abbon:2007pq. One of the important objectives of the experiment is the exploration of the transverse spin structure of the nucleon via spin dependent azimuthal asymmetries in single-hadron production in deep inelastic scattering of polarized leptons off transversely polarized target. For this purpose a series of measurements were made in COMPASS, using 160 GeV/c longitudinally polarized muon beam and transversely polarized 6LiD (in 2002, 2003 and 2004) and NH3 (in 2007 and 2010) targets. Till now main attention was focused on Collins and Sivers asymmetries and obtained results play an important role in the general understanding of the three-dimensional nature of the nucleon in terms of Transverse Momentum Dependent (TMD) Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) and Fragmentation Functions (FFs). In addition to these two measured leading-twist effects, the SIDIS cross-section counts six more target transverse spin dependent azimuthal effects, which have their own well defined leading or higher-twist interpretation in terms of QCD parton model. So far COMPASS presented preliminary results for these asymmetries from deuteron Parsamyan:2007ju,Kotzinian:2007uv and "proton-2007" data Parsamyan:2010se. In this contribution we review the results obtained with the last "proton-2010" data sample.
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