Storage Ring Section for a Polarized Gas Target with High Angular Acceptance

In the framework of the FAIR project, the PAX collaboration has suggested new experiments using polarized protons and antiprotons. In order to provide polarized antiprotons, the polarization buildup by spin-dependent attenuation due to nuclear interaction (spin-filtering) must be studied. The goal of these investigations is to understand the physics of the spin-filtering process with stored protons at COSY, and to shed light on the role of polarized electrons for the polarization buildup. Later on, the spin-dependence of the proton-antiproton interaction will be investigated at the Antiproton Decelerator ring (AD) of CERN. In order to carry out these investigations, a storage ring section has to be developed which minimizes the spin-independent losses due to single Coulomb scattering