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Cross sections of proton-induced nuclear reactions on enriched $$^{\mathrm {86}}$$ 86 Sr target were measured by the activation technique up to proton energies of 44 MeV. The isomeric cross-section ratios for $$^{\mathrm {86m,g}}$$ 86 m , g Y and $$^{\mathrm {85m,g}}$$ 85 m , g Y as a function of projectile energy were deduced from their measured data. The present experimental data for the nuclear reaction products, namely $$^{\mathrm {86m}}$$ 86 m Y, $$^{\mathrm {86g+xm}}$$ 86 g + xm Y, $$^{\mathrm {85m}}$$ 85 m Y, $$^{\mathrm {85g}}$$ 85 g Y, $$^{\mathrm {84}}$$ 84 Rb and $$^{\mathrm {83}}$$ 83 Rb were compared with the results of nuclear model calculations using the code TALYS, which combines the statistical, precompound, and direct interactions. In general, the experimental cross-section data as well as the isomeric cross-section ratios are reproduced well by the model calculations, provided the input model parameters are properly chosen and the level structure of the product nucleus is thoughtfully considered. The quality of the agreement between experimental data and model calculations was numerically quantified. For products formed via emission of a light complex particle as well as multi-nucleons (e.g., $$\alpha $$ α and 2p2n), the contribution of the latter process starts increasing when its energy threshold is crossed.

In the first production run of the WASA experiment at COSY, the eta decay into three neutral pions was measured in proton-proton interactions at a proton beam kinetic energy of 1.4 GeV. The Dalitz ...

Excitation functions A(N)(p(p),Theta(c.m.)) of the analyzing power in pp--> elastic scattering have been measured with a polarized atomic hydrogen target for projectile momenta p(p) between 1000 and 3300 MeV/ c. The experiment was performed for scattering angles 30 degrees

Excitation functions of proton-proton elastic cross sections have been measured in narrow momentum steps Δp = 28 MeV/c in the kinetic energy range from 0.5 to 2.5 GeV and the angular range 35° ≤ Θ cm ≤ 90° with a detector providing ΔΘ cm ≈ 1.4° resolution and 82% solid angle coverage. Measurements have been performed continuously during projectile acceleration in the Cooler Synchrotron COSY with an internal CH 2 fiber target; background corrections were derived from measurements with a carbon fiber target and from Monte Carlo simulations of inelastic pp contributions. Particular care was taken to monitor the luminosity as a function of beam energy. The results provide excitation functions and angular distributions of unprecedented precision and internal consistency. The measured cross sections are compared to recent phase shift analyses, and their impact on the present solution SM97 [1] is discussed.

For the the EDDA experiment, which was set up to measure the p-p excitation function during the acceleration ramp of the cooler synchrotron COSY at Julich, a polarized atomic-beam target was designed regarding the restrictions imposed by the geometry of the EDDA detector. Later, when the time-reversal invariance experiment is to be performed, the EDDA detector will serve as efficient internal polarimeter and the source has to deliver tensor polarized deuterons. The modular design of this polarized atomic-beam target that allows to meet these conditions will be discussed in comparison to other existing polarized atomic-beam targets.

The Nuclear Physics Institute at the Forschungszentrum Julich, a member of the Helmholtz Association, conducts experimental and theoretical basic research in the field of hadron, particle, and nuclear physics. It operates the cooler synchrotron COSY, an accelerator and storage ring, which provides unpolarized and polarized proton and deuteron beams with beam momenta of up to 3.7 GeV/c. Main activities of the accelerator division are the design and construction of the high energy storage ring HESR, a synchrotron and part of the international FAIR project, and the operation and development of COSY with injector cyclotron and ion sources. Filament driven volume sources and a charge exchange colliding beams source, based on a nuclear polarized atomic beam source, provide unpolarized and polarized H− or D− routinely for more than 6500 hours/year. Within the Helmholtz Association's initiative Accelerator Research and Development, ARD, the existing sources at COSY, as well as new sources for future programs, are...

The Institute for Nuclear Physics at the Forschungszentrum Julich is dedicated to fundamental research in the field of hadron, particle and nuclear physics. Main activities are the development of the High Energy Storage Ring for the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research at Darmstadt and the operation and improvement of the cooler synchrotron COSY at Julich. The injector, a cyclotron with polarized and unpolarized H− and D− sources, has exceeded 7000 hours availability per year, averaged over the last decade. Work in progress is the investigation of production, extraction and transport of the low energy 4.5 keV/u ion beams. A brief overview of the activities is presented.

By advancing the components of the polarized negative ion source the number of polarized particles for injection into the cyclotron injector of the cooler synchrotron COSY at the IKP of the Forschungszentrum Julich has been increased, since 2000, by a factor of three to 5.5×1012 H− ions, delivered in a 20 milliseconds pulse with a repetition rate of 2 seconds. This report sums up briefly the characteristics of the ion source in its present mode of operation and describes the achievements towards higher beam intensities as well as for providing polarized H− and D− beams with high reliability.

At the Cooler Synchrotron COSY/Jülich spin-correlation parameters in elastic proton-proton (pp) scattering have been measured with a 2.11 GeV polarized proton beam and a polarized hydrogen atomic beam target. We report results for A(NN), A(SS), and A(SL) for c.m. scattering angles between 30 degrees and 90 degrees. Our data on A(SS)--the first measurement of this observable above 800 MeV--clearly disagrees with predictions of available pp scattering phase-shift solutions while A(NN) and A(SL) are reproduced reasonably well. We show that in the direct reconstruction of the scattering amplitudes from the body of available pp elastic scattering data at 2.1 GeV the number of possible solutions is considerably reduced.

An atomic-beam target (ABT) for the EDDA experiment has been built in Bonn and was tested for the very first time at the cooler synchrotron COSY. The ABT differs from the polarized colliding-beams ion source for COSY in the DC-operation of the dissociator and the use of permanent 6-pole magnets. At present the beam optics of the ABT is set-up for maximum density in the interaction zone, but for target-cell operation it can be modified to give maximum intensity. The modular concept of this atomic ground-state target allows to provide all vector- (and tensor) polarizations for protons and deuterons, respectively. Up to now the polarization of the atomic-beam could be verified by the EDDA experiment to be ≳80% with a density in the interaction zone of ≳1011 atoms/cm2.

The polarized ion source at the cooler synchrotron COSY in Julich has been designed for the cooler synchrotron COSY and the injector cyclotron JULIC. The source is based on the colliding beams concept and delivers an pulsed H− current of over 20 μA within an emittance e of less than 0.5 π mm mrad (βγ normalized). The polarization P is in excess of 85%. A substantial enhancement of the H− current results from the pulsing of the atomic beam part and the improvement of the neutral cesium intensity.