Polarized 3He Target for JLab 12 GeV Era
Published on:
September 23, 2020
Abstract
Since most of the 3He spin is carried by the unpaired neutron, polarized 3He targets have been widely used as a effective polarized neutron target in electron scattering experiments to study the spin structure of neutron. Over the past a couple of decades, polarized 3He targets had been successfully utilized in thirteen electron scattering experiments during JLab 6 GeV era. At JLab, a technique called Spin-Exchange Optical Pumping (SEOP) is used to polarized the 3He target. For the past decade, several developments including Rb-K hybrid alkali system and high power narrow line-width diode lasers were implemented to the polarized 3He target in order to reach higher 3He polarization with world record luminosity. As JLab completed 12 GeV upgrade in 2017, there are seven upcoming approved polarized 3He target experiments. Upgrade of the target with convection cell and Pulse Nulear Magnetic Resonance (PNMR) polarimetry were completed for the first upcoming 12 GeV era experiment An1 (E12-06-110) with collaboration of dn2 (E12-06-121) in JLab Hall C. For typical 1022/cm2 high-density target used in this collaboration experiment, the maximum polarization reached over 50% under 30μA electron beam, thus the luminosity of 1036/cm2/s will be achieved.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.379.0026
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