A surprising method for polarising antiprotons |
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Authors: | Th Walcher H Arenhövel K Aulenbacher R Barday A Jankowiak |
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Institution: | 1.Institut für Kernphysik,Johannes Gutenberg-Universit?t Mainz,Mainz,Germany;2.Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare,Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati,Frascati (Rome),Italy |
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Abstract: | We propose a method for polarising antiprotons in a storage ring by means of a polarised positron beam moving parallel to
the antiprotons. If the relative velocity is adjusted to v/c ≈ 0.002 the cross-section for spin-flip is as large as about 2 . 1013 barn as shown by new QED calculations of the triple spin cross-sections. Two possibilities for providing a positron source
with sufficient flux density are presented. A polarised positron beam with a polarisation of 0.70 and a flux density of approximately
1.5 . 1010 /(mm2 s) appears to be feasible by means of a radioactive 11C dc-source. A more involved proposal is the production of polarised positrons by pair production with circularly polarised
photons. It yields a polarisation of 0.76 and requires the injection into a small storage ring. Such polariser sources can
be used at low (100MeV) as well as at high (1GeV) energy storage rings providing a time of about one hour for polarisation
build-up of about 1010 antiprotons to a polarisation of about 0.18. A comparison with other proposals show a gain in the figure of merit by a factor
of about ten. |
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Keywords: | 13 88 +e Polarisation in interactions and scattering 29 20 db Storage rings and colliders 29 25 Bx Electron sources 29 27 Hj Polarized beams |
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