Published June 13, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Deuteron polarimetry at COSY

  • 1. High Energy Physics Institute, Tbilisi State University, 0186 Tbilisi (Georgia)
  • 2. Institut fuer Kernphysik, Forschungszentrum Juelich, 52428 Juelich (Germany)
  • 3. High Energy Physics Depar., Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, 188350 Gatchina (Russian Federation)
  • 4. Physikalisches Institut II, Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, 91058 Erlangen (Germany)
  • 5. Physics and Astronomy Department, UCL, London WC1E 6BT (United Kingdom)

Description

The vector Pz and tensor Pzz polarizations of a deuteron beam have been measured using elastic deuteron-carbon scattering at 75.6 MeV and deuteron-proton scattering at 270 MeV. After acceleration to 1170 MeV inside the COSY storage ring, the polarizations of the deuterons were remeasured by studying the analyzing powers of a variety of nuclear reactions at the ANKE magnetic spetrometer. The overall precisions obtained were about 4% for both Pz and Pzz. One of the motivation for the experimental programme is the direct reconstruction of the spin-dependent amplitudes, including relative phases, of large angle neutron-proton elastic scattering, through the study of the p(d,2p)n charge-exchange reaction up to the highest available deuteron energy at COSY (2.3 GeV)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
915
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 908-911
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPCS

Conference

Title
17. international spin physics symposium
Dates
2-7 Oct 2006
Place
Kyoto (Japan)

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(c) 2007 American Institute of Physics