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We evaluate the linearity of three electric measurement techniques of the initial electron density in laser filaments by comparing their results for a pair of filaments and for the sum of each individual filament. The conductivity measured…

The control of the optical quality of a laser beam requires a complex amplitude measurement able to deal with strong modulus variations and potentially highly perturbed wavefronts. The method proposed here consists in an extension of phase…

To achieve confident non-zero polarization measurements for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) we need sensitive polarimeters and bright GRBs. Here we report on the polarimetric analysis of the bright GRB 180720B using the \Fermi Gamma-ray Burst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-26 P. Veres , W. Duvall , A. Goldstein , M. S. Briggs , J. E. Grove

We present investigations on the coherence of the emission from the polarization split fundamental mode of an AlGaInAs/GaAs quantum-dot microcavity laser. Using polarization insensitive measurements of the first-order field-correlation…

In the aspect of longitudinal beam bunching, the bunching strength can be controlled by the RF cavity phase and voltage. However, these machine parameters are different from those that interact with the beam itself. In order to gain control…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 K. Shih , I. Petrushina , V. N. Litvinenko , I. Pinayev , J. Ma , G. Wang , Y. Jing , Y. Wu

We have performed a novel comparison between electron-beam polarimeters based on M{\o}ller and Compton scattering. A sequence of electron-beam polarization measurements were performed at low beam currents ($<$ 5 $\mu$A) during the $Q_{\rm…

The luminosity of the electron-proton collider, HERA, will be increased by a factor of five during the long shutdown in the year 2000. At the same time longitudinal lepton beam polarisation will be provided for the collider experiments H1…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 K. R. Long

The HERMES hydrogen and deuterium nuclear-polarized gas targets have been in use since 1996 with the polarized electron beam of HERA at DESY to study the spin structure of the nucleon. Polarized atoms from a Stern-Gerlach Atomic Beam Source…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-08-27 The HERMES Collaboration

Using the first station of the Long Wavelength Array (LWA1), we examine polarized pulsar emission between 25 and 88 MHz. Polarized light from pulsars undergoes Faraday rotation as it passes through the magnetized interstellar medium.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-01 V. Dike , G. B. Taylor , J. Dowell , K. Stovall

Millimeter-band polarimetry offers a powerful probe of AGN jets, accessing regions less affected by opacity and Faraday rotation than at longer radio wavelengths. As part of the POLAMI program, we have conducted 14 years of 1 mm and 3 mm…

A summary is given on the physics potential of measuring singly polarized proton--nucleon collisions using a polarized internal target in the 820 GeV HERA proton beam. This summary is based upon talks given at the 2nd Meeting on 'Possible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Wolf-Dieter Nowak

The linear polarisation of the Crab pulsar and its close environment was derived from observations with the high-speed photo-polarimeter OPTIMA at the 2.56-m Nordic Optical Telescope in the optical spectral range (400 - 750 nm). Time…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-12 Agnieszka Słowikowska , Gottfried Kanbach , Michael Kramer , Alexander Stefanescu

We demonstrate that a proton irradiation with fluences of $3.6\times10^{10}$/cm$^{2}$ at low energy ($<$ 36 MeV) and $1.46 \times 10^{10}$/cm$^{2}$ at high energy (40 MeV and 90 MeV combined) on the dielectric mirrors of Fabry-P\'erot…

POLAR-2 is a dedicated gamma-ray polarimeter currently foreseen to be launched towards the China Space Station around 2027. The design of the detector is based on the legacy of its predecessor mission POLAR which was launched in 2016.…

A calibration scheme is presented for improved polarization state measurement of terahertz pulses. In this scheme the polarization response of a two-contact terahertz photoconductive detector is accurately measured, and is used to correct…

Optics · Physics 2012-01-25 M. Neshat , N. P. Armitage

We report on the development of a sub-kelvin, single-crystal silicon Fabry-Perot cavity. Operating such a cavity below 1~K should reduce the thermal noise limit of the cavity, and by this way address the current limitations of ultrastable…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-06-13 Joannès Barbarat , Jonathan Gillot , Jacques Millo , Clément Lacroûte , Thomas Legero , Vincent Giordano , Yann Kersalé

We report on recent technical developments in the front- and back-ends for the four 20 m radio telescopes of the Japanese Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) project, VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry (VERA). We present a brief…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 Yoshiaki Hagiwara , Kazuhiro Hada , Mieko Takamura , Tomoaki Oyama , Aya Yamauchi , Syunsaku Suzuki

Taking advantage of the advances in array detector technology, an imaging polarimeter (IMPOL) has been constructed for measuring linear polarization in the wavelength band from 400-800 nm. It makes use of a Wollaston prism as the analyser…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-15 A. N. Ramaprakash , Ranjan Gupta , A. K. Sen , S. N. Tandon

POLAR is a space-borne hard X-ray Compton polarimeter built by a collaboration of institutes from Switzerland, China and Poland. Precise detection of the polarization can be a powerful tool to unveil emission mechanisms of e.g. Gamma-Ray…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-18 Hualin Xiao , Wojtek Hajdas , Radaslow Marcinkowski

Measurements of the cross sections for charged current deep inelastic scattering in e-p collisions with longitudinally polarised electron beams are presented. The measurements are based on a data sample with an integrated luminosity of 175…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 ZEUS Collaboration