Abstract
We recently studied the spin manipulation of 1.85 GeV/c vertically polarized deuterons stored in the COSY cooler synchrotron. We adiabatically swept an rf dipole's frequency through an rf-induced spin resonance and observed its effect on the deuterons' vector and tensor polarizations. After optimizing the resonance crossing rate and maximizing the rf dipole's voltage, we measured spin-flip efficiencies of 97 ± 1% and 98.5 ± 0.3% in two separate runs. We also confirmed at higher energy the striking behavior of the spin-1 tensor polarization recently found at IUCF.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 061001 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-9 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue number | 6 |
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| State | Published - Jun 2005 |
| Externally published | Yes |