The PAX Collaboration has successfully performed a spin-filtering experiment with protons at the COSY-ring. The measurement allowed the determination of the spin-dependent polarizing cross section, that compares well with the theoretical prediction from the nucleon–nucleon potential. The test confirms that spin-filtering can be adopted as a method to polarize a stored beam and that the present interpretation of the mechanism in terms of the proton–proton interaction is correct. The outcome of the experiment is of utmost importance in view of the possible application of the method to polarize a beam of stored antiprotons.
Polarization of a stored beam by spin-filtering
BARION, Luca;BENATI, Paolo;BERTELLI, Susanna;CARASSITI, Vittore;CIULLO, Giuseppe;CONTALBRIGO, Marco;FERRETTI, Paola;FIORINI, Massimiliano;GUIDOBONI, Greta;LENISA, Paolo;PAPPALARDO, Luciano Libero;PESCE, Andrea;STATERA, Marco;
2012
Abstract
The PAX Collaboration has successfully performed a spin-filtering experiment with protons at the COSY-ring. The measurement allowed the determination of the spin-dependent polarizing cross section, that compares well with the theoretical prediction from the nucleon–nucleon potential. The test confirms that spin-filtering can be adopted as a method to polarize a stored beam and that the present interpretation of the mechanism in terms of the proton–proton interaction is correct. The outcome of the experiment is of utmost importance in view of the possible application of the method to polarize a beam of stored antiprotons.File in questo prodotto:
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