Title :
A Method to Polarize Stored Antiprotons to a High Degree
Author :
Lehrach, A. ; Martin, S. ; Rathmann, F. ; Lenisa, P. ; Meshkov, I.N. ; Sidorin, A. ; Smirnov, A. ; Montag, C. ; Steffens, E. ; Wiedner, C.-A.
Author_Institution :
Institut für Kernphysik, Forschungzentrum Jülich, Germany, a.lehrach@fz-juelich.de
Abstract :
The PAX collaboration proposed a method to prepare intense beams of polarized antiprotons [1]. Polarized antiprotons can be produced in a storage ring by spin-dependent interaction in a pure hydrogen gas target. The polarizing process is based on spin transfer from the polarized electrons of the target atoms to the orbiting antiprotons. In this paper, beside a description of the polarization technique and its potential, a preliminary lattice design and first ideas for beam cooling are discussed.
Keywords :
Atomic beams; Collaboration; Cooling; Electromagnetic wave polarization; Electrons; Filtering; Kinetic theory; Lattices; Particle beams; Storage rings;
Conference_Titel :
Particle Accelerator Conference, 2005. PAC 2005. Proceedings of the
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8859-3
DOI :
10.1109/PAC.2005.1591042
