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REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS
Volume 74, Issue 11, Pages 4607-4615Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.1619550
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The Lamb-shift polarimeter described here enables the polarization of a beam of hydrogen (deuterium) atoms, or of a slow proton (deuteron) beam, to be measured with an absolute precision better than 1% within a few seconds. The polarimeter measures the intensity ratios of Lyman-alpha transitions after Stark quenching of metastable hyperfine substates that were selected in a spin filter. For that purpose the hydrogen (deuterium) atoms are ionized in a Glavish-type ionizer. By charge exchange of the protons (deuterons) in cesium vapor, atoms in the metastable 2S state are produced. For a hydrogen beam of 3x10(16) atoms/s, similar to3x10(6) photons/s are registered in a photomultiplier, i.e., the polarimeter efficiency is about 10(-10). The signal-to-background ratio in the Lyman-alpha spectrum is excellent, thus beam intensities of one to two orders of magnitude less would still be sufficient to carry out a precise measurement. The different components of the polarimeter affect the measured polarization in several ways. It was, therefore, crucial to determine precisely the associated correction factors in order to derive the nuclear polarization from the measured Lyman-alpha spectra. (C) 2003 American Institute of Physics.
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