Low-Energy Deuteron Polarimeter

2005/03/20 by Michael Bellos, Bellos, Michael
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Fusion and Nuclear Reactions #FOS: Physical sciences #Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) #Nuclear physics research studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #nucl-ex

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.nucl-ex/0503016

44 pages, 24 figures, Master's thesis at the University of Groningen

arxiv created 2005/03/20 · openalex publication_date 2005/03/20 · arxiv updated 2015/07/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We built a Low Energy Deuteron Polarimeter which measures the spin-polarization of deuteron beams in the energy range of 25 to 80 keV. This polarimeter works by measuring azimuthal asymmetries in the D( d, n)³He reaction and comparing them to known analyzing powers. We built this polarimeter to test its performance and to cross-check other existing polarimeters at KVI. We were able to use this polarimeter as a vector polarimeter, but not as a tensor polarimeter because of an uncertain 'tensor analyzing power' calibration.

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