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Spin-Filtering Studies at COSY
We propose to use an internal polarised target in the COSY ring to determine the polarisation
build–up in a proton beam. Spin–filtering experiments at COSY would provide
the necessary data to test our present understanding of spin–filtering processes in storage
rings.
Measurements of the polarisation build–up of stored protons are crucial to progress
towards the PAX goal to eventually produce stored polarised antiproton beams. The
availability of intense stored beams of polarised antiprotons will provide access to a wealth
of single– and double–spin observables, opening a new window on QCD spin physics. It
is planned to realise this experimental programme at the new Facility for Antiproton and
Ion Research (FAIR) at GSI in Darmstadt, Germany.
A recent experiment at COSY revealed that e~p spin–flip cross sections are too small to
cause a detectable depolarisation of a stored proton beam. This measurement rules out a
proposal to use polarised electrons to polarise a proton beam by ~ep spin–flip interactions.
Thus, our approach to provide a beam of polarised protons is based on spin–filtering using
an internal polarised gas target.
In total 22 weeks of beam time are needed to complete the experimental program at
COSY. We now ask for two weeks of beam time for commissioning of the low–β section
and measuring the machine acceptance
Status Report and Beam-Time Request for COSY experiment #199 Spin–Filtering Studies at COSY
We report on the progress of the PAX experimental programme since the last PAC
meeting. During summer shutdown 2009 four new quadrupole magnets and a modified
vacuum system have been installed into the COSY ring to form a section with low β
functions. With the successful commissioning of this low-β insertion in January 2010 it has
also been discovered that intra-beam scattering effects are likely limiting the beam lifetime.
In order to get these effects under control and to improve the lifetime, to commission a
new detection system, and to finally perform a first series of spin–filtering measurements
with transverse polarisation, we request ten weeks of beam time.
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Beam Request Spin-Filtering Studies at COSY
Summary of experiment:
We report on the progress of the PAX experimental program since the last PAC
meeting. During two blocks of each three weeks beam development intercepted by two
weeks of maintenance, systematic machine studies have been carried out. An effective
procedure for setting up the machine with the low-β section and a target cell at the new
PAX-IP in order to achieve high beam lifetimes has been developed.
The effect of flow-limiters and one NEG-pump on the beam lifetime has been studied,
as well as the effect of different beam emittances and beam intensities on the beam
lifetime. Even though by increasing the beam emittance a reproducible maximum for
the beam lifetime was achievable, no effect of the beam intensity was seen and therefore
no clear observation of the so-called Touschek-effect was possible. Nevertheless, we
learned how to gain a sufficient beam lifetime for spin-filtering studies at COSY and
apply for 3 weeks of beam development followed by 4 weeks of beam time