Towards Polarized Antiprotons at FAIR
- Institut fuer Kernphysik, Forschungszentrum Juelich, 52425 Juelich (Germany)
Understanding the interplay of the nuclear interaction with polarized protons and the electromagnetic interaction with polarized electrons in polarized atoms is crucial to progress towards the PAX goal to eventually produce stored polarized antiproton beams at FAIR. Presently, there exist two competing theoretical scenarios: one with substantial spin filtering of (anti)protons by atomic electrons, and a second one suggesting a self-cancellation of the electron contribution to spin filtering. After a brief review of the PAX physics case for polarized antiprotons at FAIR, a detailed discussion of future investigations, including spin-filtering experiments at COSY-Juelich and at the AD of CERN is presented.
- OSTI ID:
- 21064067
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 915, Issue 1; Conference: 17. international spin physics symposium, Kyoto (Japan), 2-7 Oct 2006; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.2750927; (c) 2007 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). PAX Collaboration; ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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