Speaker
Arthur Conover
(University of Virginia)
Description
The SpinQuest experiment (E1039) will measure the azimuthal asymmetry of dimuon pair production via scattering of unpolarized protons from transversely polarized NH3 and ND3 targets. The asymmetry will be measured for both Drell-Yan scattering and J/psi production. By measuring the asymmetry for the Drell-Yan process, it is possible to extract the Sivers Function for the light anti-quarks in the nucleon. A non-zero asymmetry would be “smoking gun” evidence for orbital angular momentum of the light sea-quarks: a possible contributor to the proton’s spin. The status and plans for the experiment will also be discussed.
Primary author
Arthur Conover
(University of Virginia)