1. The HERMES Polarized Hydrogen and Deuterium Gas Target in the HERA Electron Storage Ring
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G. Graw, Y. Salomatin, V. A. Gapienko, N. Bianchi, V. A. Korotkov, K. Sinram, L. De Nardo, M. Ehrenfried, R. De Leo, B. Hommez, W. Haeberli, Y. Van Haarlem, R. Seidl, J. G. Rubin, L. Lapikás, M. Bouwhuis, H. Böttcher, L. Rubacek, J. Seele, P. Tait, Michael Tytgat, E. Avetissian, K. Garrow, H. Ohsuga, Dirk Ryckbosch, A. Airapetian, Klaus Rith, G. Elbakian, W. Augustyniak, S. Lu, D. Heesbeen, B. Zihlmann, L. A. Linden-Levy, S. Taroian, Adel Terkulov, H. E. Jackson, V. G. Krivokhijine, H. P. Blok, A. Borissov, Y. Miyachi, J. Wendland, C. Baumgarten, W. Sommer, A. Reischl, F. Stinzing, Wolfgang Lorenzon, B. Maiheu, A. Rostomyan, A. Avetissian, D. H. Potterveld, Z. Akopov, G. Iarygin, J. Stewart, A. Brüll, C. Hadjidakis, Bo-Qiang Ma, R. Mussa, Ivana Hristova, G. Schnell, C. A. Miller, P. Bailey, J. Wilbert, P. E. Reimer, Rezo Shanidze, M. Henoch, G. Gapienko, Arne Vandenbroucke, G. van der Steenhoven, V. Vikhrov, Manuella Vincter, A. Nagaitsev, Michel Vetterli, A. Fantoni, E. De Sanctis, V. Kozlov, A. Laziev, Riccardo Fabbri, M. Statera, Hidekazu Tanaka, D. Reggiani, W.H.A. Hesselink, A. Borysenko, G. Ciullo, K. P. Schüler, P.F. Dalpiaz, N. Koch, B. Braun, T. Kobayashi, N. Akopov, O. Grebeniouk, Z. Ye, Y. Mao, P. Lenisa, V. Gharibyan, J. J. M. Steijger, Michael Düren, A. Trzcinski, J. Volmer, M. Stancari, T. Wise, C. Schill, A. Jgoun, Y. X. Ye, A. Ivanilov, A. Fechtchenko, C. Vogel, D. Balin, O. Mikloukho, M. Beckmann, W.-D. Nowak, A. R. Reolon, C. Shearer, Hasko Stenzel, C. Riedl, L. Felawka, B. Seitz, M. Amarian, E. Nappi, K. Hafidi, V. Mexner, I.A. Savin, L. Lagamba, V. Muccifora, U. Elschenbroich, M. Demey, P. Zupranski, P. Di Nezza, H. Kolster, Y. Holler, K. Oganessyan, P. B. van der Nat, I. M. Gregor, N. Meyners, G. Rosner, A. Osborne, Ralf Hertenberger, T. A. Shibata, M. Hartig, G.P. Capitani, Andrey V. Izotov, R.O. Avakian, M. Hoek, D. Hasch, B. Marianski, G.R. Court, G. V. Ybeles Smit, M. Capiluppi, B. Tchuiko, M. Kopytin, A. Nass, S. Frullani, P. Liebing, N. Pickert, E. Devitsin, J. Lu, A. Kisselev, S. Yen, Ralf Kaiser, E. Steffens, A. Hillenbrand, G. Gavrilov, M. Contalbrigo, Martin Raithel, T. Chen, E. C. Aschenauer, V. Shutov, I. Sanjiev, Naomi C R Makins, H. Marukyan, Houbing Lu, S. Belostotski, A. Andrus, V. Bryzgalov, M. Negodaev, F. Garibaldi, Sihui Wang, A. Elalaoui-Moulay, Frank Ellinghaus, E. R. Kinney, Y. Naryshkin, B. Krauss, (Astro)-Particles Physics, and Photo Conversion Materials
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29.25.Pj ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors ,Hydrogen ,Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph) ,chemistry.chemical_element ,FOS: Physical sciences ,07.60.F ,Electron ,01 natural sciences ,Physics - Atomic Physics ,NO ,07.77 ,29.25.-t ,0103 physical sciences ,Physics::Atomic and Molecular Clusters ,Physics::Atomic Physics ,010306 general physics ,Instrumentation ,Physics ,67.65 ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,DESY ,HERA ,Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) ,Polarization (waves) ,29.25.P ,chemistry ,Deuterium ,Cathode ray ,Atomic physics ,Nucleon - Abstract
The HERMES hydrogen and deuterium nuclear-polarized gas targets have been in use since 1996 with the polarized electron beam of HERA at DESY to study the spin structure of the nucleon. Polarized atoms from a Stern-Gerlach Atomic Beam Source are injected into a storage cell internal to the HERA electron ring. Atoms diffusing from the center of the storage cell into a side tube are analyzed to determine the atomic fraction and the atomic polarizations. The atoms have a nuclear polarization, the axis of which is defined by an external magnetic holding field. The holding field was longitudinal during 1996-2000, and was changed to transverse in 2001. The design of the target is described, the method for analyzing the target polarization is outlined, and the performance of the target in the various running periods is presented. © 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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