A polarized atomic beam source was developed for the polarized internal storage-cell gas target at the magnet spectrometer ANKE of COSY-J\"ulich. The intensities of the beams injected into the storage cell, measured with a compression tube, are 7.5⋅1016 hydrogen atoms/s (two hyperfine states) and 3.9⋅1016 deuterium atoms/s (three hyperfine states). For the hydrogen beam the achieved vector polarizations are pz≈±0.92. For the deuterium beam, the obtained combinations of vector and tensor (pzz) polarizations are pz≈±0.90 (with a constant pzz≈+0.86), and pzz=+0.90 or pzz=−1.71 (both with vanishing pz). The paper includes a detailed technical description of the apparatus and of the investigations performed during the development.
@article{arxiv.1212.1840,
title = {The Polarized H and D Atomic Beam Source for ANKE at COSY-J\"ulich},
author = {M. Mikirtychyants and R. Engels and K. Grigoryev and H. Kleines and P. Kravtsov and S. Lorenz and M. Nekipelov and V. Nelyubin and F. Rathmann and J. Sarkadi and H. Paetz gen. Schieck and H. Seyfarth and E. Steffens and H. Ströher and A. Vasilyev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.1840},
year = {2013}
}