Summary of the Workshop on Polarized Sources and Targets - PST2001
Abstract
The workshops on polarized sources and targets take place every two years and present a broad overview of polarized ion sources, electron sources, solid and gaseous targets and neighbouring fields, like the application of polarized atoms in applied sciences and medicine. The present meeting organized by the IUCF laboratory was conducted at Nashville, Indiana, near Bloomington. All the necessary tools for spin experiments in nuclear and particle physics were presented and shown to be in very good shape. Impressive progress was reported about polarized proton sources for RHIC and the IUCF cooler. New materials for photo cathodes are under constant development and polarimetry of high-energy electron beams has reached high precision. Neutron polarizers based on 3He cells have opened up new fields in material science and on precision studies of weak interaction in polarized neutron decay. Solid polarized target material for next-generation structure function measurements remains an active field. New materials for special applications are under study. Gaseous hydrogen and deuterium targets have been extensively used at medium and high energy proton and electron storage rings resulting in a wealth of high precision data. RIB facilities in combination with polarization techniques open up new opportunities for the future.
- Publication:
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Polarized Sources and Targets
- Pub Date:
- April 2002
- DOI:
- 10.1142/9789812777683_0056
- Bibcode:
- 2002pst..conf..355S