Spin flipper for thermal atomic beams

Conference · Sat Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1983 · AIP Conf. Proc.; (United States)

OSTI ID:6077368

Baum, G; Schroeder, W

The spin flipper presented here is based on the method of diabatic passage. It allows for a rapid reversal of electronic as well as nuclear polarization of a thermal atomic beam without affecting beam intensity, beam profile, or magnetic fields in the interaction region. The flipper will be useful in spin dependent measurements where instrumental asymmetries and systematic errors have to be kept small. The spin flipper was tested with a polarized lithium beam in an atomic physics experiment and the reversal efficiency was found to be 0.98. The flipper can easily be adapted for other spin-polarizable atoms, e.g. for a polarized atomic hydrogen beam target. 5 references, 2 figures.

• Research Organization: Universitaet Bielefeld, West Germany
• OSTI ID: 6077368
• Report Number(s): CONF-820941-
• Conference Information: Journal Name: AIP Conf. Proc.; (United States) Journal Volume: 95
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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