1. Results of Measurements of the Analyzing Powers for Polarized Neutrons on C, CH 2 and Cu Targets for Momenta Between 3 and 4.2 GeV/c
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J. Musinsky, A. V. Shipunov, R. A. Montgomery, V. M. Slepnev, A. V. Shutov, P. A. Rukoyatkin, K. S. Legostaeva, O. P. Gavrishchuk, N. V. Kostayeva, D. Marchand, A. A. Povtoreiko, C. F. Perdrisat, I.M. Sitnik, I. V. Slepnev, A. N. Livanov, K. Hamilton, R. A. Shindin, A. V. Terletskiy, I. A. Philippov, V. V. Glagolev, V. A. Punjabi, J. R. M. Annand, N.M. Piskunov, S. N. Basilev, Ying Wang, J. Urban, Egle Tomasi-Gustafsson, Di. Kirillov, Alexander Kovalenko, G. Martinska, Yu.P. Bushuev, Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, and Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Physics ,History ,Nuclotron ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Computer Science::Information Retrieval ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Nuclear Theory ,Polarimeter ,[PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex] ,Polarization (waves) ,01 natural sciences ,Charged particle ,030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging ,Computer Science Applications ,Education ,Nuclear physics ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Deuterium ,0103 physical sciences ,Figure of merit ,Neutron ,Nucleon ,Nuclear Experiment - Abstract
The analyzing powers for neutron charge exchange nA → pX reactions on nuclei have been measured on C, CH2 and Cu targets at incident neutron momenta 3.0 - 4.2 GeV/c by detecting one charged particle in forward direction. The polarized neutron measurements are the first of their kind. The experiment was performed using the Nuclotron accelerator in JINR Dubna, where polarized neutrons and protons were obtained from breakup of a polarized deuteron beam which has a maximum momentum of 13 GeV/c. The polarimeter ALPOM2 was used to obtain the analyzing power dependence on the transverse momentum of the final-state nucleon. These data have been used to estimate the figure of merit of a proposed experiment at Jefferson Laboratory to measure the recoiling neutron polarization in the quasi-elastic 2 H(e, e′n) reaction, which yields information on the charge and magnetic elastic form factors of the neutron.
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- 2019