The recently approve
d COMPASS experiment attempts a measurement of the gluon polarization aroun
d η
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g/
g)
der=0 SRC=/images/glyphs/BQ2.GIF> 0.1. The experiment uses open charm muo-pro
duction an
d large P
T ha
dron pairs to tag the photon-gluon fusion process. COMPASS will also cover a rich spin-physics program in polarize
d DIS.