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Ultra-High precision Compton polarimetry at 2 GeV

Instrumentation and Detectors 2024-02-27 v1 Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

We report a high precision measurement of electron beam polarization using Compton polarimetry. The measurement was made in experimental Hall A at Jefferson Lab during the CREX experiment in 2020. A total uncertainty of dP/P=0.36% was achieved detecting the back-scattered photons from the Compton scattering process. This is the highest accuracy in a measurement of electron beam polarization using Compton scattering ever reported, surpassing the ground-breaking measurement from the SLAC Large Detector (SLD) Compton polarimeter. Such uncertainty reaches the level required for the future flagship measurements to be made by the MOLLER and SoLID experiments.

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@article{arxiv.2402.16135,
  title  = {Ultra-High precision Compton polarimetry at 2 GeV},
  author = {A. Zec and S. Premathilake and J. C. Cornejo and M. M. Dalton and C. Gal and D. Gaskell and M. Gericke and I. Halilovic and H. Liu and J. Mammei and R. Michaels and C. Palatchi and J. Pan and K. D. Paschke and B. Quinn and J. Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.16135},
  year   = {2024}
}
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