Transverse Spin Structure of the Nucleon

Understand

We review the current status and future perspectives of theory and experiments of transverse spin phenomena in high-energy scattering processes off nucleon targets and related issues in nucleon structure and QCD.

• Systematic exploration of transverse spin effects requires measurements in polarized deep-inelastic scattering, polarized pp collisions, and e+e- annihilations.
• Sophisticated QCD-based techniques are also needed to analyze the experimental data sets.