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Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 210801 (2008) [4 pages]

Observation of Polarized Positrons from an Undulator-Based Source

G. Alexander,1 J. Barley,2 Y. Batygin,3 S. Berridge,4 V. Bharadwaj,3 G. Bower,3 W. Bugg,4 F.-J. Decker,3 R. Dollan,5 Y. Efremenko,4 V. Gharibyan,6,7 C. Hast,3 R. Iverson,3 H. Kolanoski,5 J. Kovermann,8 K. Laihem,9 T. Lohse,5 K. T. McDonald,10 A. A. Mikhailichenko,2 G. A. Moortgat-Pick,11 P. Pahl,6 R. Pitthan,3 R. Pöschl,6 E. Reinherz-Aronis,1 S. Riemann,9 A. Schälicke,9 K. P. Schüler,6 T. Schweizer,5 D. Scott,12 J. C. Sheppard,3 A. Stahl,8 Z. M. Szalata,3 D. Walz,3 and A. W. Weidemann3
1Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
2Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
3SLAC, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
4University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
5Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
6DESY, D-22607 Hamburg, Germany
7YerPhI, Yerevan 375036, Armenia
8RWTH Aachen, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
9DESY, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany
10Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
11University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
12STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, WA4 4AD, United Kingdom

Received 8 March 2008; published 29 May 2008

An experiment (E166) at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center has demonstrated a scheme in which a multi-GeV electron beam passed through a helical undulator to generate multi-MeV, circularly polarized photons which were then converted in a thin target to produce positrons (and electrons) with longitudinal polarization above 80% at 6 MeV. The results are in agreement with Geant4 simulations that include the dominant polarization-dependent interactions of electrons, positrons, and photons in matter.

©2008 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.210801
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.210801
PACS: 07.77.Ka; 13.88.+e; 29.27.Hj; 41.75.Fr
  • 07.77.Ka
    Charged-particle beam sources and detectors
  • 13.88.+e
    Polarization in elementary particle interactions and scattering
  • 29.27.Hj
    Polarized beams in accelerators
  • 41.75.Fr
    Electron and positron beams
  • YEAR: 2008

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