Published September 21, 2014 | Version v1
Journal article

New experimental upper limit of the electron–proton spin-flip cross-section

  • 1. Jülich Center for Hadron Physics, 52425 Jülich (Germany)
  • 2. Institut für Kernphysik, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52425 Jülich (Germany)
  • 3. INFN - Sezione di Ferrara, 44122 Ferrara (Italy)
  • 4. Universitá di Ferrara, 44122 Ferrara (Italy)
  • 5. Physics Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 (United States)
  • 6. Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991 Moscow (Russian Federation)
  • 7. Institut für Kern- und Hadronenphysik, Forschungszentrum Rossendorf, 01314 Dresden (Germany)
  • 8. National Centre for Nuclear Research, 00681 Warsaw (Poland)
  • 9. High Energy Physics Institute, Tbilisi State University, 0186 Tbilisi, Georgia (United States)
  • 10. St. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Insitute, 188350 Gatchina (Russian Federation)

Description

In a previous publication, measurements of the depolarization of a stored proton beam by interaction with a co-propagating unpolarized electron beam at low relative energy have been presented and an upper limit of about 3 ×107 b for the electron–proton spin-flip cross-section was determined. A refined analysis presented in this paper reduces the previous upper limit by a factor of three by the introduction of a new procedure that also makes use of non-identified particles

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2014.05.058

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nima.2014.05.058;
PII
S0168-9002(14)00590-7;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Journal Volume
759
Journal Page Range
p. 6-9
ISSN
0168-9002
CODEN
NIMAER

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