Development of a Polarized Helium-3 Source for RHIC and eRHIC
<jats:p> The addition of a polarized <jats:sup>3</jats:sup>He ion source for use at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory would enable a host of new measurements, particularly in the context of a planned eRHIC. We are developing such a source...
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| author | Maxwell, J Epstein, C Milner, R Alessi, J Beebe, E Pikin, A Ritter, J Zelenski, A |
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| description | <jats:p> The addition of a polarized <jats:sup>3</jats:sup>He ion source for use at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory would enable a host of new measurements, particularly in the context of a planned eRHIC. We are developing such a source using metastability exchange optical pumping to polarize helium-3, which will be then transferred into RHIC’s Electron Beam Ion Source for ionization. We aim to deliver nuclear polarization of near 70%, and roughly 10[Formula: see text] doubly-ionized <jats:sup>3</jats:sup>He[Formula: see text] ions will be created in each 20 [Formula: see text]sec pulse. We discuss the design of the source, and the status of its development. </jats:p> |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1323342021-09-21T03:15:54Z Development of a Polarized Helium-3 Source for RHIC and eRHIC Maxwell, J Epstein, C Milner, R Alessi, J Beebe, E Pikin, A Ritter, J Zelenski, A <jats:p> The addition of a polarized <jats:sup>3</jats:sup>He ion source for use at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory would enable a host of new measurements, particularly in the context of a planned eRHIC. We are developing such a source using metastability exchange optical pumping to polarize helium-3, which will be then transferred into RHIC’s Electron Beam Ion Source for ionization. We aim to deliver nuclear polarization of near 70%, and roughly 10[Formula: see text] doubly-ionized <jats:sup>3</jats:sup>He[Formula: see text] ions will be created in each 20 [Formula: see text]sec pulse. We discuss the design of the source, and the status of its development. </jats:p> 2021-09-20T18:21:52Z 2021-09-20T18:21:52Z 2020-11-04T19:01:37Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/132334 en 10.1142/S2010194516601022 International Journal of Modern Physics: Conference Series Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 unported license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ application/pdf World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt World Scientific |
| spellingShingle | Maxwell, J Epstein, C Milner, R Alessi, J Beebe, E Pikin, A Ritter, J Zelenski, A Development of a Polarized Helium-3 Source for RHIC and eRHIC |
| title | Development of a Polarized Helium-3 Source for RHIC and eRHIC |
| title_full | Development of a Polarized Helium-3 Source for RHIC and eRHIC |
| title_fullStr | Development of a Polarized Helium-3 Source for RHIC and eRHIC |
| title_full_unstemmed | Development of a Polarized Helium-3 Source for RHIC and eRHIC |
| title_short | Development of a Polarized Helium-3 Source for RHIC and eRHIC |
| title_sort | development of a polarized helium 3 source for rhic and erhic |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/132334 |
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