Development of Polarized 3He Neutron Spin Filters at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
C. Jiang*, X. Tong, T. Wang, L. Mcdonald, L. Robertson, J. Ruff and N. Silva
Published on:
September 23, 2020
Abstract
Nuclear spin-polarized 3He is widely used in many scientific areas. One of the applications is used as a neutron spin filter to polarize neutrons. Among all the neutron polarizing techniques, nuclear-spin-polarized 3He neutron spin filters have shown great flexibility and versatility because of its highly spin-dependent neutron absorption cross section, large neutron acceptance angle and working over a broad neutron wavelength band. At the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 3He is routinely polarized via spin-exchange optical pumping (SEOP). Over the last several years, various SEOP-based systems have been developed to suit the needs of different neutron instruments at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) and the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR). Particularly, much effort has been put in developing in situ systems to address the problem caused by 3He polarization decay in the widely used “drop-in cell” setup. Because most instruments at SNS and HFIR have very limited space, the in situ system development has been focused on having a compact form factor design tailored to each individual beamline while still achieving high 3He polarization. We report the development of polarized 3He neutron spin filters at ORNL.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.379.0035
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