New method to polarize protons in a storage ring and implications to polarize antiprotons

Abstract
A feasibility test of a new method to polarize beams of strongly interacting charged particles circulating in a storage ring is described. The stored particles, here protons, pass through a polarized hydrogen gas target (thickness 6×1013 H/cm2) in the ring some 1010 times and become partially polarized because one spin state is attenuated faster than the other. The polarization buildup is clearly demonstrated in the present experiment.

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