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With the recently emerging global interest in building a next generation of circular electron-positron colliders to study the properties of the Higgs boson, and other important topics in particle physics at ultra-high beam energies, it is…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-05-25 Zhe Duan , Mei Bai , Desmond P. Barber , Qing Qin

A novel scheme is proposed for generating a polarized positron beam via multiphoton Breit-Wheeler process during the collision of a 10 GeV, pC seeding electron beam with the other 1 GeV, nC driving electron beam. The driving beam provides…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-09-20 Huai-Hang Song , Wei-Min Wang , Yu-Tong Li

We argue that the observed antiproton production in heavy-ion collisions at CERN-SpS energies can be understood if (contrary to most sequential scattering approaches) the backward direction in the process $p\bar p \leftrightarrow…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Rapp , E. V. Shuryak

We present a method to create spin-polarized beams of ballistic electrons in a two-dimensional electron system in the presence of spin-orbit interaction. Scattering of a spin-unpolarized injected beam from a lithographic barrier leads to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hong Chen , J. J. Heremans , J. A. Peters , J. P. Dulka , A. O. Govorov , N. Goel , S. J. Chung , M. B. Santos

We demonstrate a mesoscopic spin polarizer/analyzer system that allows the spin polarization of current from a quantum point contact in an in-plane magnetic field to be measured. A transverse focusing geometry is used to couple current from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. M. Potok , J. A. Folk , C. M. Marcus , V. Umansky

If a beam of unpolarized positrons (which is considered as a sum of two fractions with opposite helicities) passes through an intense circular polarized laser radiation these fractions may be separated. For high laser flash intensity each…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 A. P. Potylitsyn

We study repeated (noncontinuous) measurements on the electron spin in a quantum dot and find that the measurement technique may lead to a different met$ or mechanism to realize nuclear spin polarization. While it may be used in any case,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-28 Lian-Ao Wu

Direct dynamic nuclear polarization of 1H nuclei in frozen water and water-ethanol mixtures is demonstrated using silicon nanoparticles as the polarizing agent. Electron spins at dangling-bond sites near the silicon surface are identified…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-14 M. C. Cassidy , C. Ramanathan , D. G. Cory , J. W. Ager , C. M. Marcus

We discuss a novel concept of a polarized nuclear target for accelerator fixed-target scattering experiments, which is based on parahydrogen induced polarization (PHIP). One may be able to reach a 33% free-proton polarization in the ethane…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2013-01-15 D. Budker , M. P. Ledbetter , S. Appelt , L. S. Bouchard , B. Wojtsekhowski

The design and parameters of the polarized-beam facility at U-70 proton synchrotron of NRC Kurchatov Institute - IHEP are presented. The new beamline 24A will provide the polarized proton and antiproton beams for carrying out the rich…

The traditional method of spin-flipping a stored polarized beam is based on slowly crossing an rf induced depolarizing resonance. This paper discusses a novel approach where the polarization reversal is achieved by trapping the beam…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2011-02-11 Ya. S. Derbenev , V. A. Anferov

The possible existence of short-range forces between unpolarized and polarized spin-1/2 particles has attracted the attention of physicists for decades. These forces are predicted in various theories and provide a possible new source for…

Relativistic spin-polarized electron beams are important for fundamental research and the industry, but their generation currently requires conventional accelerators or ultrastrong laser facilities, limiting their accessibility and broad…

For the polarization of neutrons with an energy level of \textcolor{black}{$>0.1$ eV}, we developed a novel polarized proton spin filter based on dynamic nuclear polarization using photo-excited triplet electron spins. The spin filter…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-07-21 Shusuke Takada , Kenichiro Tateishi , Yasuo Wakabayashi , Yoshimasa Ikeda , Tamaki Yoshioka , Yoshie Otake , Tomohiro Uesaka

We have developed a novel technique for detection of spin polarization with a quantum dot weakly coupled to the objective device. The disturbance to the object in this technique is very small since the detection is performed through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Sunwoo Kim , Yoshiaki Hashimoto , Taketomo Nakamura , Shingo Katsumoto

I will summarize the physics that can be investigated with polarized pp collisions. It is technically feasible to use the RHIC collider for accelerating highly polarized protons to a center-of-mass energy of about 400 GeV, with high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 John C. Collins

The electron-positron pair production accompanying interaction of a circularly polarized laser pulse with a foil is studied for laser intensities higher than $10^{24}$W cm$^{-2}$. The laser energy penetrates into the foil due to the effect…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 I. Yu. Kostyukov , E. N. Nerush

Polarized attosecond $\gamma-$rays may offer excitation and hyperfine tracking of reactions relevant to nuclear physics, astrophysics, high-energy physics, etc. However, unfortunately, generation of a feasible and easy-to-deploy source is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-05-13 Li-Jie Cui , Ke-Jia Wei , Chong Lv , Feng Wan , Yousef I. Salamin , Lei-Feng Cao , Jian-Xing Li

The self-polarization of relativistic electrons or positrons moving in a magnetic field at a storage ring occurs through the emission of spin-flip synchrotron radiation, known as the Sokolov-Ternov effect. The resulting transverse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-24 Xu Cao , Yu-Tie Liang , Rong-Gang Ping

We propose a novel approach to measure spin polarization of nucleons produced in electron--positron collisions. Using existing tracking devices and supporting structure material, general-purpose spectrometers can be utilized as a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-07 Yu-Tie Liang , Xiao-Rong Lv , Andrzej Kupsc , Boxing Gou , Hai-Bo Li