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This report presents a brief summary of the science opportunities and program of a polarized medium energy electron-ion collider at Jefferson Lab and a comprehensive description of the conceptual design of such a collider based on the CEBAF…

The atomic physic collaboration SPARC is a part of the APPA pillar at the future Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research. It aims for atomic-physics research across virtually the full range of atomic matter. A research area of the atomic…

We discuss the experimental techniques used to date for measuring the changes in polarization state of a laser produced by a strong transverse magnetic field acting in a vacuum. We point out the likely artifacts that can arise in such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-10-10 Christopher C. Davis , Joseph Harris , Robert W. Gammon , Igor I. Smolyaninov , Kyuman Cho

The preservation of nuclear spin alignment in plasmas is a prerequisite for important applications, such as energy production through polarized fusion or the acceleration of polarized particle beams. Although this conservation property has…

Precise proton and neutron form factor measurements at Jefferson Lab, using spin observables, have recently made a significant contribution to the unraveling of the internal structure of the nucleon. Accurate experimental measurements of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-02 V. Punjabi , C. F. Perdrisat , M. K. Jones , E. J. Brash , C. E. Carlson

The production of high-transverse energy jets in hadron-hadroncollisions is sensitive to the presence of new contact interactions between quarks. If proton polarization were available, the measurement of some parity violating spin…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 P. Taxil , J. -M. Virey

We propose an experimental test of local hidden variable theories against quantum mechanics by measuring the polarization correlation of entangled vector meson pairs. In our study, the form of the polarization correlation probability is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-09-25 Xun Chen , Siguang Wang , Yajun Mao

Short-range correlated (SRC) nucleon pairs, which are strongly interacting nucleons at short inter-particle distances, can reveal properties of the effective nucleon-nucleon (\textit{NN}) interaction at short distance scales. The relative…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-09-12 Erin Marshall Seroka , Axel Schmidt

Spin-polarized particle beams are of interest for applications like deep-inelastic scattering, e.g. to gain further understanding of the proton's nuclear structure. With the advent of high-intensity laser facilities, laser-plasma-based…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Lars Reichwein , Zheng Gong , Chuan Zheng , Liangliang Ji , Alexander Pukhov , Markus Büscher

Scalar polarization modes of gravitational waves, which are often introduced in the context of the viable extension of gravity, have been actively searched. However, couplings of the scalar modes to the matter are strongly constrained by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-19 Hiroki Takeda , Yusuke Manita , Hidetoshi Omiya , Takahiro Tanaka

Dynamic nuclear polarization is widely used to enhance the sensitivity of nuclear magnetic resonance. It is presently the method of choice for enhancing the sensitivity of high-field solid state NMR experiments performed under cryogenic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Maria Grazia Concilio , Ilya Kuprov , Lucio Frydman

Benefitting from the unequaled precision of the pulsar timing technique, binary pulsars are important testbeds of gravity theories, providing some of the tightest bounds on alternative theories of gravity. One class of well-motivated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-13 Junjie Zhao , Paulo C. C. Freire , Michael Kramer , Lijing Shao , Norbert Wex

A Jefferson Lab experiment proposal was discussed in this talk. The experiment is designed to measure the beam-target double-spin asymmetries $A_{1n}^h$ in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic $\vec n({\vec e}, e^\prime \pi^+)X$ and $\vec n({\vec…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-08-23 Xiaodong Jiang

A future Linear Collider is well suited for discovering physics beyond the Standard Model, for revealing the structure of the underlying physics as well as for performing high precision tests of the Standard Model. The use of polarised…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Gudrid Moortgat-Pick

It has been predicted recently that an electron beam can be polarized when it flows adiabatically through a quantum point contact in a system with spin-orbit interaction. Here, we show that a simple transverse electron focusing setup can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Reynoso , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

In this proposal, we present an experimental setup based on superconducting circuits and Josephson junctions to explore the modification of Josephson coefficient in the presence of external magnetic field due to vacuum polarization of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-01-02 Ali Izadi Rad

The discrepancy between polarized and unpolarized measurements of the proton's electromagnetic form factors is striking, and suggests that two-photon exchange (TPE) may be playing a larger role in elastic electron-proton scattering than is…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-06-13 Axel Schmidt

The photon polarization tensor is the central building block of an effective theory description of photon propagation in the quantum vacuum. It accounts for the vacuum fluctuations of the underlying theory, and in the presence of external…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-08-28 Felix Karbstein , Lars Roessler , Babette Döbrich , Holger Gies

The operation of HERA with polarized proton and electron beams will allow to study a wide variety of observables in polarized electron-proton collisions at $\sqrt s=300$ GeV. The physics prospects of this project have been elaborated in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. De Roeck , T. Gehrmann

Particle spin polarization is known to be linked both to rotation (angular momentum) and magnetization of a many particle system. However, in the most common formulation of relativistic kinetic theory, the spin degrees of freedom appear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-08-04 Leonardo Tinti , Wojciech Florkowski