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Title: Deuteron polarimetry at COSY

Journal Article · · AIP Conference Proceedings
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2750923· OSTI ID:21064063
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  1. Institut fuer Kernphysik, Forschungszentrum Juelich, 52428 Juelich (Germany)
  2. Physikalisches Institut II, Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, 91058 Erlangen (Germany)
  3. Physics and Astronomy Department, UCL, London WC1E 6BT (United Kingdom)

The vector Pz and tensor Pzz polarizations of a deuteron beam have been measured using elastic deuteron-carbon scattering at 75.6 MeV and deuteron-proton scattering at 270 MeV. After acceleration to 1170 MeV inside the COSY storage ring, the polarizations of the deuterons were remeasured by studying the analyzing powers of a variety of nuclear reactions at the ANKE magnetic spetrometer. The overall precisions obtained were about 4% for both Pz and Pzz. One of the motivation for the experimental programme is the direct reconstruction of the spin-dependent amplitudes, including relative phases, of large angle neutron-proton elastic scattering, through the study of the p(d,2p)n charge-exchange reaction up to the highest available deuteron energy at COSY (2.3 GeV)

OSTI ID:
21064063
Journal Information:
AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 915, Issue 1; Conference: 17. international spin physics symposium, Kyoto (Japan), 2-7 Oct 2006; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.2750923; (c) 2007 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English