FOCAL PLANE POLARIMETER FOR A TEST OF EPR PARADOX

A proton polarimeter EPOL has been constructed at the focal plane of the spectrograph SMART at RIKEN. EPOL is designed for the test of EPR paradox in a two proton system by measuring the spin-correlation of the ' H ( d , p p [ ' S o ] ) n reaction at E d = 270 MeV. EPOL consists of a spin-analyzer target (graphite slab), plastic scintillation counter hodoscopes and multi-wire drift chambers. EPOL is capable of identifying the trajectories of two protons before and after scattering in the analyzer target. EPOL has been calibrated at Ep = 12&160 MeV. The effective analyzing power is 0.17-0.23 and the figure of merit is 0.7-2.6 x lop3, both of which increase with incident energy.