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We describe a method for precise estimation of the polarization of a mesoscopic spin ensemble by using its coupling to a single two-level system. Our approach requires a minimal number of measurements on the two-level system for a given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Giedke , J. M. Taylor , D. D'Alessandro , M. D. Lukin , A. Imamoglu

We report high nuclear polarization of 1.2 mbar 3He gas in a sealed cell in magnetic fields up to 5 T using Metastability Exchange Optical Pumping (MEOP). The creation of a highly polarized 3He gas target for use in the 5 T field of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-05-23 Pushpa Pandey , Hao Lu , James Maxwell , James Brock , Christopher Keith , Xiaqing Li , Richard Milner , Dien Nguyen

A novel neutron spin resonance technique is presented based on the well-know neutron spin echo method. In a first proof-of-principle measurement using a monochromatic neutron beam, it is demonstrated that relative velocity changes of down…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-04-11 Florian M. Piegsa , Patrick Hautle , Christian Schanzer

We report on spin- and angular resolved photoemission spectroscopy using a high-resolution imaging spin filter based on a large Ir(001) crystal enhancing the effective figure of merit for spin detection by a factor of over $10^3$ compared…

There has been much recent research into polarizing an antiproton beam, instigated by the recent proposal from the PAX (Polarized Antiproton eXperiment) project at GSI Darmstadt. It plans to polarize an antiproton beam by repeated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 N. H. Buttimore , D. S. O'Brien

In the optical pumping systems based on the pump-probe arrangement, the spin polarization of the atoms is generally monitored utilizing the probe laser beam, in which way an extra perturbation must be introduced and thus affects the normal…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-02-09 Jiancheng Fang , Rujie Li , Lihong Duan , Wenfeng Fan , Liwei Jiang

We report on compact, gaseous 3He NMR probes for precision magnetometry of magnetic fields B > 0.1 T in the temperature range from ambient temperatures down to 4 Kelvin. The gas is polarized at thermal equilibrium under pressures up to 100…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-05-26 P. Blümler , M. Fertl , H. -J. Grafe , R. Graf , W. Heil

The M{\o}ller polarimeter in Hall A at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, VA, has provided reliable measurements of electron beam polarization for the past two decades reaching the typically required $\pm$1\% level of absolute uncertainty.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-07-05 D. C. Jones , J. Napolitano , P. A. Souder , D. E. King , W. Henry , D. Gaskell , K. Paschke

We describe a nuclear spin gyroscope based on an alkali-metal-noble-gas co-magnetometer. An optically pumped alkali-metal vapor is used to polarize the noble gas atoms and detect their gyroscopic precession. Spin precession due to magnetic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. W. Kornack , R. K. Ghosh , M. V. Romalis

A possibility to accelerate a high intensity polarized proton beam up to 70 GeV at the IHEP accelerator, extract it from the main ring and deliver to several experimental setups is being studied now. We propose to study a wealth of single-…

The frozen spin method can be effectively used for a high-precision measurement of the tensor electric and magnetic polarizabilities of the deuteron and other nuclei in storage rings. For the deuteron, this method would provide the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-29 Alexander J. Silenko

We report on the use of the polarized $^3$He gas filter and neutron resonant enhancement techniques for the measurement of spin-polarized diffuse neutron scattering due to ferromagnetic domains. A CoO/Co exchange biased bilayer was grown on…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Radu , A. Vorobiev , J. Major , H. Humblot , K. Westerholt , H. Zabel

To determine the state of spin polarization of the 3D electron gas at very low densities and zero temperature, we calculate the energy versus spin polarization using Diffusion Quantum Monte Carlo methods with backflow wavefunctions and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 F. H. Zong , C. Lin , D. M. Ceperley

Experiments with polarized 3He at MAMI have already a long tradition. The A3 collaboration started in 1993 with the aim to measure the electric form factor of the neutron. At this time MAMI was the second accelerator where experiments with…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-26 Daniela Rohe

We report on a novel and efficient source of polarization squeezing using a single pass through an optical fiber. Simply passing this Kerr squeezed beam through a carefully aligned lambda/2 waveplate and splitting it on a polarization beam…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Heersink , V. Josse , G. Leuchs , U. L. Andersen

The Polarized Atomic Hydrogen Gas Jet Target polarimeter (HJET) is used to measure the absolute proton beam polarization, $\sigma_P^\text{syst}/P\!\lesssim\!0.5\%$, at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Here I consider the possibility of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-13 A. A. Poblaguev

A possibility to measure the energy and polarization distributions of high intensity gamma-beams is considered. This possibility is based on measurements of the number of electron-pozitron pairs in such media as laser waves and single…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 V. A. Maisheev

The precise manipulation and analysis of neutron spin states are foundational for a wide range of physics experiments, from fundamental symmetry tests to materials science. To enable systematic characterization of neutron polarimetry…

We present a novel analysis method for measurements of polarization transferred in $A(\vec{e},e'\vec{N})$ experiments, which can be applied to other kinds of polarization measurements as well. In this method the polarization transfer…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-08-15 D. Izraeli , I. Mardor , E. O. Cohen , M. Duer , T. Y. Izraeli , I. Korover , J. Lichtenstadt , E. Piasetzky

In order to measure the mass of the eta meson with high accuracy using the d+p -> 3He+eta reaction, the momentum of the circulating deuteron beam in the Cooler Synchrotron COSY of the Forschungszentrum Juelich has to be determined with…