HERMES experiment

HERMES was a particle detector at the HERA particle accelerator located at the German national laboratory DESY in Hamburg. The experiment's goal was to investigate the quark–gluon structure of matter by examining how a nucleon's constituents affect its spin.[1] It later developed into a pioneering experiment for measuring generalised parton parton distributions and a general-purpose experiment for the study of QCD processes.[2] HERMES completed its first run between 1995 and 2000, and its second run between 2001 and 2007. It measured 3.5 m × 8 m × 5 m and weighed 400 tons.[3]

The HERMES collaboration consisted of nearly 200 scientists from more than 13 countries.[4]

  1. ^ "HERMES on INSPIREHEP". INSPIRE. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
  2. ^ "HERMES @ DESY: Spinstruktur der Quarks im Proton". Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
  3. ^ "HERA pointing the way" (PDF). DESY. Retrieved 4 May 2023.
  4. ^ "HERMES collaboration on arXiv". Cornell University. Retrieved 8 November 2022.