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We present sub-milliarcsecond resolution total intensity and linear polarization VLBI images of 3C273, using concurrent 43 and 86 GHz data taken with the Very Long Baseline Array in May 2002. The structure seen in the innermost jet suggest…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Joanne M. Attridge , John F. C. Wardle , Daniel C. Homan

Non-VLBI measurements of Faraday rotation at mm wavelengths have been used to constrain mass accretion rates ($\mdot$) onto supermassive black holes in the centre of the Milky Way and in the centre of M87. We constructed general…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-19 Monika Moscibrodzka , Jason Dexter , Jordy Davelaar , Heino Falcke

We are developing a neutron polarizer with polarized $^3$He gas, referred to as a $^3$He spin filter, based on the Spin Exchange Optical Pumping (SEOP) for polarized neutron scattering experiments at Materials and Life Science Experimental…

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

We perform metastability exchange optical pumping of helium-3 in a strong magnetic field of 1.5 T. The achieved nuclear polarization, from 80% at 1.33 mbar to 25% at 67 mbar, shows a substantial improvement at high pressures with respect to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 Marie Abboud , Alice Sinatra , Xavier Maitre , Genevieve Tastevin , Pierre-Jean Nacher

Paramagnetic Faraday rotation is a powerful technique for atom sensing widely used in quantum non-demolition measurements, fundamental symmetry tests, and other precision measurements. We demonstrate the use of a multi-pass optical cell for…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-08-29 S. Li , P. Vachaspati , D. Sheng , N. Dural , M. V. Romalis

We report the detection of variable linear polarization from Sgr A* at a wavelength of 3.5mm, the longest wavelength yet at which a detection has been made. The mean polarization is 2.1 +/- 0.1% at a position angle of 16 +/- 2 deg with rms…

Faraday Rotation Measure (RM) Synthesis, as a method for analyzing multi-channel observations of polarized radio emission to investigate galactic magnetic fields structures, requires the definition of complex polarized intensity in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 P. Frick , D. Sokoloff , R. Stepanov , R. Beck

The design, fabrication, operation, and performance of a helium-3/4 dilution refrigerator and superconducting magnet system for holding a frozen-spin polarized hydrogen deuteride target in the Jefferson Laboratory CLAS detector during…

Radio polarimetric observations of Active Galactic Nuclei can reveal the magnetic field structure in the parsec-scale jets of these sources. We have observed the gamma-ray blazar 3C 273 as part of our multi-frequency survey with the Very…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-09 T. Hovatta , M. L. Lister , M. F. Aller , H. D. Aller , D. C. Homan , Y. Y. Kovalev , A. B Pushkarev , T. Savolainen

We have observed depolarization effects when high intensity cold neutron beams are incident on alkali-metal-spin-exchange polarized He-3 cells used as neutron spin filters. This was first observed as a reduction of the maximum attainable…

Proton-3He scattering is one of the good probes to study the T=3/2 channel of three--nucleon forces. We have measured 3He analyzing powers for p-3He elastic scattering with the polarized 3He target at 70 and 100 MeV. The data are compared…

For experiments of the type A(\vec e,e'\vec p) the 3-spectrometer setup of the A1 collaboration at MAMI has been supplemented by a focal plane proton-polarimeter. To this end, a carbon analyzer of variable thickness and two double-planes of…

Considering the spatially separated polarization radiation and Faraday rotation regions to simulate complex interstellar media, we study synchrotron polarization gradient techniques' measurement capabilities. We explore how to trace the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-14 Ru-Yue Wang , Jian-Fu Zhang , Alex Lazarian , Hua-Ping Xiao , Fu-Yuan Xiang

Gallium Oxide (Ga2O3) has a huge potential on the power device for its high breakdown filed and good transport properties. beta-Ga2O3 as the thermodynamics stable phase, has been demonstrated to form high electron mobility transistor (HEMT)…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-01-17 Yi Lu , Hsin-Hung Yao , Jingtao Li , Jianchang Yan , Junxi Wang , Jinmin Li , Xiaohang Li

We present a simple permanent magnet set-up that can be used to measure the Faraday effect in gases, liquids and solids. By fitting the transmission curve as a function of polarizer angle (Malus' law) we average over fluctuations in the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-22 Daniel L. Carr , Nicholas L. R. Spong , Ifan G. Hughes , Charles S. Adams

This article reviews the physics and technology of producing large quantities of highly spin-polarized, or hyperpolarized, $^3$He nuclei using spin-exchange (SEOP) and metastability-exchange (MEOP) optical pumping, and surveys applications…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 T. R. Gentile , P. J. Nacher , B. Saam , T. G. Walker

We perform polarimetry analysis of 20 active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) at 1.4, 1.6, 2.2, 2.4, 4.6, 5.0, 8.1, 8.4, and 15.4 GHz. The study allowed us to investigate linearly polarized properties of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-12 E. V. Kravchenko , Y. Y. Kovalev , K. V. Sokolovsky

Modulation of the polarization state of optical beams is crucial in advanced optical applications such as polarization microscopy, polarization rotation, and medical imaging. We demonstrate a continuous polarization rotator by utilizing the…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-22 Deepak Kararwal , Rahul Panchal , Aloka Sinha

The efficiency of an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) depends on the microscopic orientation of transition dipole moments of the molecular emitters. The most effective materials used for light generation have threefold symmetry, which…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-02-26 Florian Steiner , Sebastian Bange , Jan Vogelsang , John M. Lupton