Polarization of fast particle beams by collisional pumping
Abstract
The invention relates to method and apparatus for polarizing a fast beam of particles by collisional pumping, including generating a fast beam of particles, and generating a thick electron-spin-polarized medium positioned as a target for said beam, said medium being sufficiently thick to allow said beam to interact with said medium to produce collisional pumping whereby said particle beam becomes highly polarized.
- Publication:
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Patent Application Department of Energy
- Pub Date:
- October 1984
- Bibcode:
- 1984doe..reptQ....S
- Keywords:
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- Collision Parameters;
- Electron Spin;
- Particle Beams;
- Particle Interactions;
- Polarization (Spin Alignment);
- Beam Neutralization;
- Deuterium;
- Electron Pumping;
- Nuclear Fuels;
- Patent Applications;
- Nuclear and High-Energy Physics