Published June 1, 2003 | Version v1
Journal article

Photon polarization in np fusion

  • 1. Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Koramangala, Bangalore-560 034 (India)
  • 2. Institut fuer Kernphysik, Forschungszentrum Juelich, D-52425 Juelich (Germany)
  • 3. JSS Academy of Technical Education, Bangalore-560 082 (India)

Description

A model-independent irreducible tensor formalism is developed to discuss photon polarization in np fusion. It is shown that photon polarization arising out of the interference of the dominant isovector M1 amplitude at thermal neutron energies with the small isoscalar M1 and E2 amplitudes can be studied with advantage in suitably designed polarized beam and polarized target experiments, where the neutron and proton polarizations are either opposite to each other or orthogonal to each other. (letter to the editor)

Availability note (English)

Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/0954-3899/29/L45/g306l1.pdf or at the Web site for the Journal of Physics. G, Nuclear and Particle Physics (ISSN 1361-6471) http://www.iop.org/

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. G, Nuclear and Particle Physics
Journal Volume
29
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
p. L45-L50
ISSN
0954-3899
CODEN
JPGPED