Josef Pochodzalla, Lech Mankiewicz, Murray Moinester, Gunther Piller, Andrzej Sandacz, Marc Vanderhaeghen
Abstract
We explore the feasibility to study exclusive meson production (EMP) in hard muon-proton scattering at the COMPASS experiment. These measurements constrain the off-forward parton distributions (OFPD's) of the proton, which are related to the quark orbital contribution to the proton spin.