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Title: Spin Filtering Studies at COSY and AD

Journal Article · · AIP Conference Proceedings
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3215760· OSTI ID:21344446
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  1. Phys. Institut der Universitaet Erlangen Nuernberg, E.-Rommel-Str. 1, 91058 Erlangen (Germany)

The high physics potential of experiments with stored high-energy polarized antiprotons led to the proposal of PAX (Polarized Antiproton eXperiment) for the High Energy Storage Ring (HESR) of the FAIR at GSI (Darmstadt/Germany). It is proposed to polarize a stored antiproton beam by means of spin filtering with a polarized H (D) gas target. The feasibility of spin filtering has been demonstrated in the FILTEX experiment. The current interpretation foresees a self-cancellation of the electron contribution to the filtering process and only the hadronic contribution is effective. Several experimental studies with protons (at COSY/Juelich) as well as antiprotons (at AD/CERN) will be carried out to test the principle and measure p-barp-vector and p-bard-vector cross sections. A polarized internal gas target (PIT) with surrounding Silicon detectors immersed into a low-beta section has to be set up.

OSTI ID:
21344446
Journal Information:
AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1149, Issue 1; Conference: SPIN 2008: 18. International Spin Physics Symposium, Charlottesville, VA (United States), 6-11 Oct 2008; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3215760; (c) 2009 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0094-243X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English