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Compton backscattering polarimetry provides a fast and accurate method to measure the polarization of an electron beam in a storage ring. Since the method is non-destructive, the polarization of the electron beam can be monitored during…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Passchier , D. W. Higinbotham , C. W. de Jager , B. E. Norum , N. H. Papadakis , N. P. Vodinas

High-brilliance high-polarization $\gamma$ rays based on Compton scattering are of great significance in broad areas, such as nuclear, high-energy, astro-physics, etc. However, the transfer mechanism of spin angular momentum in the…

Photon-photon interactions mediated by the neutral hydrogen background can transform plane polarization into circular polarization, through completely forward processes, [gamma+gamma+atom-> gamma+ gamma+atom], in which only the photon…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-04 R. F. Sawyer

We consider the polarization characteristics of the electromagnetic (EM) counterpart of the gravitational wave (GW) created by coalescence of the binary sources. Here, we explore the impact of the photon-graviton interaction on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-27 Soroush Shakeri , Alireza Allahyari

Polarization measurements of the gamma-ray component of transient sources are of great scientific interest, they are however, also highly challenging. This is due to the typical low signal to noise and the potential for significant…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Merlin Kole , Jianchao Sun

We discuss the measurement of polarized photons arising from radiative muon capture. The spectrum of left circularly polarized photons or equivalently the circular polarization of the photons emitted in radiative muon capture on hydrogen is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Shung-ichi Ando , Harold W. Fearing , Dong-Pil Min

We established important relationships between entanglement measures and the order parameter (spin polarization) in nuclear spin systems controlled by the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technique. Since spin polarization can be easily…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-27 G. B. Furman , V. M. Meerovich , V. L. Sokolovsky

We present the theoretical basis of a cavity-enhanced polarimetric scheme for the measurement of parity-nonconserving (PNC) optical rotation. We discuss the possibility of detecting PNC optical rotation in accessible transitions in…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 L. Bougas , G. E. Katsoprinakis , W. von Klitzing , T. P. Rakitzis

Chemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization is a signature of spin order appearing in many photosynthetic reaction centers. Such polarization, significantly enhanced above thermal equilibrium, is known to result from the nuclear spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 I. K. Kominis

The polarization measurement is an important tool to probe the prompt emission mechanism in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The synchrotron photons can be scattered by cold electrons in the outflow via Compton scattering processes. The observed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-19 Zhe Chang , Yunguo Jiang , Hai-Nan Lin

The polarization of final-state photons is a critical observable for probing the fundamental mechanisms of particle and nuclear interactions, providing insights into spin and parity structure that are inaccessible through cross-section…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-01-30 Xiao-Rong Lv , Yu-Tie Liang , Boxing Gou , Chuang-Xin Lin , Ai-Qiang Guo

Synchrotron radiation and Compton scattering are widely accepted as the most likely emission mechanisms of some astrophysical phenomena, such as gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and active galactic nuclei (AGNs). The measurement on polarization of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-02-18 Zhe Chang , Hai-Nan Lin , Yunguo Jiang

The polarisation dynamics of nuclear spins weakly coupled to an NV center is highly sensitive to the parameters of the microwave control and the nuclear Larmor frequency. What is commonly regarded as a challenge, we propose here as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Q. Chen , Z. -Y. Wang , B. Tratzmiller , I. Schwartz , M. B. Plenio

The Na59 collaboration aims to measure the linear polarization of its photon beam in the 20-170 GeV range, using an aligned thin crystal. The tracks of $e^-/e^+$ pairs created in two different crystal targets, germanium and diamond, are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-07-19 G. Unel

Parity-violating polarized electron scattering from nucleons and nuclei provides an excellent tool to extract valuable information on nuclear and nucleon structure, as well as to determine Standard Model couplings and higher-order radiative…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-04-15 O. Moreno , T. W. Donnelly , R. González-Jiménez , J. A. Caballero

Linear polarization measurements have been performed for $\gamma$-rays in $^{91}$Ru produced with the $^{58}$Ni($^{36}$Ar, $2p1n$$\gamma$)$^{91}$Ru reaction at a beam energy of 111 MeV. The EXOGAM Ge clover array has been used to measure…

The recent claim of a high degree of linear polarization in the prompt gamma-ray burst (GRB) emission of GRB 021206 might have important implications for the underlying mechanism ultimately responsible for the GRB radiation. While the claim…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Curioni , N. Mirabal

The polarization of gamma rays produced in strong-field quantum electrodynamics (SFQED) is a fundamental and long-standing prediction, the verification of which has remained elusive, limiting both foundational tests and applications. Here,…

An experimental opportunity is presented for the future to measure possible P- and T-non-invariant axion-like interaction between nucleons in a Fm range. This interaction may be searched for in the measurement spin-dependent asymmetry of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2013-11-21 Yu. N. Pokotilovski

Pulsar polarization profiles are critical for understanding their magnetospheric structures and radiation mechanisms. We present polarization profile measurements for 25 pulsars in globular clusters (GCs) from the observation of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-08 Tong Liu , Lin Wang , Zhichen Pan