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The COMPASS Collaboration brings together about 220 physicists from 27 institutes from Europe, Russia, Japan and India. The goal is to study the structure and spectroscopy of hadrons by a series of experiments with muon and hadron beams in the energy range of 100–200 GeV. The experiment [1] is located at the M2 beam line at the CERN SPS. In 1995 the project started out with two letters of intent which were merged into a common proposal and which was fully approved in September 1998. The first construction phase ended with a commissioning run in 2001. In this article the results of this commissioning run are presented and an outlook on the 2002 run is given.
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Mallot, G.K. (2003). The COMPASS Experiment at CERN. In: Steffens, E., Shanidze, R. (eds) Spin Structure of the Nucleon. NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, vol 111. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0165-6_18
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