Spin Physics at J-PARC

TL;DR

This paper discusses the potential of J-PARC, a high-intensity hadron-beam facility, for advancing spin physics research, including GPDs, polarized distributions, and nucleon spin structure using various secondary beams.

Contribution

It highlights future possibilities for spin physics experiments at J-PARC, focusing on hadron-spin physics and the investigation of nucleon structure using secondary beams.

Findings

Potential to study GPDs with pion and proton beams

Possibility to investigate strangeness contribution to nucleon spin with neutrino beams

Future experiments could elucidate the origin of nucleon spin

Abstract

Spin-physics projects at J-PARC are explained by including future possibilities. J-PARC is the most-intense hadron-beam facility in the high-energy region above multi-GeV, and spin physics will be investigated by using secondary beams of kaons, pions, neutrinos, muons, and antiproton as well as the primary-beam proton. In particle physics, spin topics are on muon $g-2$, muon and neutron electric dipole moments, and time-reversal violation experiment in a kaon decay. Here, we focus more on hadron-spin physics as for future projects. For example, generalized parton distributions (GPDs) could be investigated by using pion and proton beams, whereas they are studied by the virtual Compton scattering at lepton facilities. The GPDs are key quantities for determining the three-dimensional picture of hadrons and for finding the origin of the nucleon spin including partonic orbital-angular-momentum contributions. In addition, polarized parton distributions and various hadron spin topics should be possible by using the high-momentum beamline. The strangeness contribution to the nucleon spin could be also investigated in principle with the neutrino beam with a near detector facility.