\newcommand{\inst}[1]{ \par\medskip{\bf #1}\par } \begin{center} {\large\bf The COMPASS Collaboration} \vspace*{2cm} \footnotesize\sl %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %\inst{Universit\"at Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany} %G.~Baum %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \inst{Ruhr-Universit\"at Bochum, Bochum, Germany} F.~Gautheron, Ch.~He\ss, J.~Koivuniemi, W.~Meyer, G.~Reicherz %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \inst{Helmholtz-Institut f\"ur Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Universit\"at Bonn, Bonn, Germany} %R.~Beck, J.~Bisplinghoff, D.~Eversheim, F.~Hinterberger, R.~Jahn, R.~Joosten, T.~Negrini %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \inst{Physikalisches Institut, Universit\"at Bonn, Bonn, Germany} J.~Barth, F.~Klein, S.~Goertz, R.~Panknin, J.~Pretz, R.~Windmolders %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \inst{Institute of Scientific Instruments in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic} A.~Srnka %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \inst{Matrivani Institute of Experimental Research \& Education, Calcutta, India} S.~Dasgupta, L.~Dhara, S.~Sarkara, L.~Sinha %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \inst{JINR, Dubna, Russia} V.~Yu.~Alexakhin, G.~D.~Alexeev, V.~A.~Anosov, A.~Antonov, A.~Efremov, O.~P.~Gavrichtchouk, A.~Guskov, Yu.~Ivanshin, O.~Ivanov, Yu.~Kisselev, O.~Kouznetsov, Z.~Kroumchtein, G.~V.~Meshcheryakov, A.~Nagaytsev, A.~Olshevski, D.~V.~Peshekhonov, G.~Pontecorvo, %V.~Rapatsky, N.~Rossiyskaya, M.~G.~Sapozhnikov, I.~A.~Savin, O.~Yu.~Shevchenko, A.~N.~Sissakian,\footnote{deceased} G.~I.~Smirnov, %M.~Slunecka, O.~V. Teryaev, L.~G.~Tkatchev, N.~V.~Vlassov, E.~Zemlyanichkina %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \inst{Universit\"at Erlangen--N\"urnberg, Erlangen, Germany} Ch.~Adolph, Ch.~Braun, W.~Eyrich, A.~Lehmann, A.~Richter %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \inst{Universit\"at Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany} H.~Fischer, F.-H.~Heinsius,\footnote{also at Bochum University, Bochum, Germany} F.~Herrmann, T.~Guth\"orl, L.~Lauser, K.~K\"onigsmann, %A.~Mutter, F.~Nerling, Ch.~Schill, H.~Wollny, K.~Schmidt, S.~Schopferer %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \inst{CERN, Gen{\`e}ve, Switzerland} G.~K.~Mallot, W.-D.~Nowak,\footnote{on leave of absence from DESY, Zeuthen, Germany} K.~Sch\"onning, M.~Schott %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \inst{Technical University of Liberec, Liberec, Czech Republic} %J.~Polak, M.~Sulc %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \inst{Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particles Physics, Lisbon, Portugal} P.~Bordalo, C.~Franco, A.~S.~Nunes, C.~Quintans, S.~Ramos, L.~Silva, M.~Stolarski %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \inst{Universit\"at Mainz, Mainz, Germany} J.~Bernhard, D.~Chaberny, N.~du Fresne von Hohenesche, D.~von~Harrach, P.~Jasinski, E.~M.~Kabu\ss, D.-H.~Kang, M.~Ostrick, J.~Pochodzalla %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \inst{P.~N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia} Yu.~Alexandrov, M.~Zavertyaev %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %\vfill %\pagebreak %\vspace*{1cm} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %\inst{Universit\"at M\"unchen, M\"unchen, Germany} %M.~Fässler, %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \inst{Technische Universit\"at M\"unchen, Munich, Germany} F.~B\"ohmer, S.~D{\o}rheim, J.~M.~Friedrich, S.~Gerassimov, S.~Grabm\"uller, B.~Grube, F.~Haas, Ch.~H\"oppner, B.~Ketzer, I.~Konorov, M.~Kr\"amer, A.~Mann, T.~Nagel, S.~Neubert, S.~Paul, L.~Schmitt,\footnote{also at GSI, Darmstadt, Germany} S.~Uhl \newpage %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \inst{Ludwig Maximilian Universit\"at M\"unchen, Munich, Germany} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% M.~Bettinelli, W.~D\"unnweber, M.~A.~Faessler, R.~Geyer, %Y.~Hao, J.-F.~Rajotte, T.~Schl\"uter, I.~Uman, A.~Zvyagin %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \inst{Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic} M.~Finger, M.~Finger jr., M.~Slunecka %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \inst{Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic} V.~Jary, %T.~Liska, M.~Virius %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \inst{IHEP, Protvino, Russia} S.~V.~Donskov, A.~Filin, G.~V.~Khaustov, Yu.~Khokhlov, V.~Kolosov, V.~Konstantinov, A.~A.~Lednev, Yu.~V.~Mikhailov, V.~I.~Nikolaenko, V.~A.~Polyakov, D.~Ryabchikov, V.~D.~Samoylenko %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \inst{CEA-Saclay, IRFU, Gif-sur-Yvette, France} Y.~Bedfer, E.~Burtin, A.~Ferrero, N.~d'Hose, F.~Kunne, A.~Magnon, N.~Makke, C.~Marchand, A.~Morreale, D.~Neyret, S.~Platchkov, M.~Vandenbroucke %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \inst{Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel} J.~Lichtenstadt, M.~A.~Moinester %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \inst{INFN, Sezione di Trieste, e Universit\`a di Trieste, Triest, Italy} R.~Birsa, F.~Bradamante, A.~Bressan, S.~Dalla~Torre, V.~Duic, C.~Elia, M.~Giorgi, B.~Gobbo, S.~Levorato, A.~Martin, G.~Pesaro, E.~Rocco, G.~Sbrizzai, P.~Schiavon, F.~Sozzi, S.~Tessaro, F.~Tessarotto %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \inst{INFN, Sezione di Torino, e Universit\`a di Torino, Turin, Italy} M.~G.~Alexeev, A.~Amoroso, F.~Balestra, R.~Bertini, M.~Chiosso, O.~Denisov, R.~Garfagnini, I.~Gnesi, A.~Grasso, A.~Kotzinian, A.~Maggiora, S.~Melis,\footnote{also at Universit\`{a} del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy} D.~Panzieri,\footnotemark[\value{footnote}] B.~Parsamyan, G.~Piragino, %J.~Prisciandaro, S.~Sosio, S.~Takekawa %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \inst{So{\l}tan Institute for Nuclear Studies and University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland} B.~Bade{\l}ek, G.~Brona, R.~Gazda, K.~Klimaszewski, K.~Kurek, E.~Rondio, A.~Sandacz, P.~Sznajder, W.~Wislicki %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \inst{Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland} J.~Marzec, M.~Dziewiecki, R.~Sulej, K.~Zaremba, M.~Ziembicki %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \inst{Yamagata University, Yamagata, Japan} N.~Doshita, T.~Iwata, S.~Ishimoto,\footnote{also at KEK, Tsukuba, Japan} N.~Horikawa,\footnote{also at Chubu University, Kasugai City, Japan} K.~Kondo, T.~Matsuda,\footnote{also at University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan} Y.~Miyachi %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \vspace*{2cm} %\hspace*{10cm}\begin{tabular}{ll} %{\footnotesize\bf Spokespersons:}&{\footnotesize\sl F.~Bradamante}\\ % &{\footnotesize\sl S.~Paul}\\ %\end{tabular} \end{center} \vfill