Journal
PHYSICA B-CONDENSED MATTER
Volume 404, Issue 17, Pages 2655-2658Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.physb.2009.06.041
Keywords
Helium; Neutron; Optical pumping; Polarization; Spin filter
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- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Physics [0855694] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [CC/D000130/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Polarized (3)He has shown its unique characteristics in many areas of polarized neutron scattering, its ability to polarize neutrons at short wavelengths, accept wide-angle and divergent beams and low backgrounds enable new classes of experiments. While polarized (3)He is not a steady state solution as commonly applied, the benefits have been shown to offset the drawbacks of polarizing and refreshing the polarization in the neutron spin filter cells. As an extension of this work, in-situ polarization using the spin-exchange optical pumping (SEOP) method was explored as a means to construct a system which could be used to polarize (3)He in the state used for an effective neutron spin filter to constant polarization while on the neutron beam. An in-situ SEOP polarizer was constructed. This device utilized many devices and principles developed for neutron spin filters which are polarized off the beam line using either SEOP or metastability exchange optical pumping (MEOP) under the same research program. As a collimation of this work effects of extremely high neutron capture flux density >1 x 10(10) cm(-2) s(-1) incident on the in-situ polarizer were explored. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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