5–7 Dec 2011
CERN
Europe/Zurich timezone

Tilted-foils setup for nuclear spin polarization of post accelerated beams

7 Dec 2011, 10:00
15m
503/1-001 - Council Chamber (CERN)

503/1-001 - Council Chamber

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Speaker

Hans Toshihide Tornqvist (CERN)

Description

Spin polarized nuclei are of great interest for many applications, for example in nuclear structure, solid state and biological physics. Recently, a project was started at ISOLDE to evaluate the tilted-foils technique applied to post accelerated beams at REX-ISOLDE. Thin tilted foils are introduced into the beam line which induces nuclear spin polarization and the degree of attained polarization can be measured with Coulomb excitation or more commonly with Beta-NMR. This year, the first online studies took place with a Beta-NMR setup that has been under construction behind REX-ISOLDE for this evaluation project. In this contribution, I will present the setup, the measurement and current results from the analysis, and an outlook for future improvements and extensions to the experiment.

Primary authors

Christophe Sotty (CSNSM Centre de Spectrometrie Nucle aire et de Spectrometrie de) Georgi Georgiev (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)) Hans Toshihide Tornqvist (CERN)

Co-authors

Alexander Gottberg (Universite de Bordeaux I (FR)) Alexander Josef Herlert (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)) Dimiter Balabanski (INRNE, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) Fredrik John Carl Wenander (CERN) Janne Pakarinen (CERN) Karl Johnston (Universitaet des Saarlandes (DE)) Dr Magdalena Kowalska (CERN) Michael Hass (Department of Particle Physics) Monika Stachura (University of Copenhagen (DK)) Dr Thomas Nilsson (CTH Goteborg)

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