High-efficiency resonant rf spin rotator with broad phase space acceptance for pulsed polarized cold neutron beams

Authors

P.-N. Seo
L. Barron-Palos
J. D. Bowman
T. E. Chupp
C. Crawford
M. Dabaghyan
M. Dawkins
S. J. Freedman
T. Gentile
M. T. Gericke
R. C. Gillis
G. L. Greene
F. W. Hersman
Gordon L. Jones, Hamilton CollegeFollow
M. Kandes
S. Lamoreaux
B. Lauss
M. B. Leuschner
R. Mahurin
M. Mason
J. Mei
G. S. Mitchell
H. Nann
S. A. Page
S. I. Penttila
W. D. Ramsay
A. Salas Bacci
S. Santra
M. Sharma
T. B. Smith
W. M. Snow
W. S. Wilburn
H. Zhu

Type of Work

Article

Date

8-1-2008

Journal Title

Physical Review Special Topics: Accelerators and Beams

Journal ISSN

1098-4402

Journal Volume

11

Journal Issue

8

First Page

084701

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.11.084701

Abstract

High precision fundamental neutron physics experiments have been proposed for the intense pulsed spallation neutron beams at JSNS, LANSCE, and SNS to test the standard model and search for new physics. Certain systematic effects in some of these experiments have to be controlled at the few ppb level. The NPDGamma experiment, a search for the small parity-violating gamma-ray asymmetry A(gamma) in polarized cold neutron capture on parahydrogen, is one example. For the NPDGamma experiment we developed a radio-frequency resonant spin rotator to reverse the neutron polarization in a 9.5 cm x 9.5 cm pulsed cold neutron beam with high efficiency over a broad cold neutron energy range. The effect of the spin reversal by the rotator on the neutron beam phase space is compared qualitatively to rf neutron spin flippers based on adiabatic fast passage. We discuss the design of the spin rotator and describe two types of transmission-based neutron spin-flip efficiency measurements where the neutron beam was both polarized and analyzed by optically polarized (3)He neutron spin filters. The efficiency of the spin rotator was measured at LANSCE to be 98.8 +/- 0.5% for neutron energies from 3 to 20 meV over the full phase space of the beam. Systematic effects that the rf spin rotator introduces to the NPDGamma experiment are considered.

Citation Information

Seo, P.-N.; Barron-Palos, L.; Bowman, J. D.; Chupp, T. E.; Crawford, C.; Dabaghyan, M.; Dawkins, M.; Freedman, S. J.; Gentile, T.; Gericke, M. T.; Gillis, R. C.; Greene, G. L.; Hersman, F. W.; Jones, Gordon L.; Kandes, M.; Lamoreaux, S.; Lauss, B.; Leuschner, M. B.; Mahurin, R.; Mason, M.; Mei, J.; Mitchell, G. S.; Nann, H.; Page, S. A.; Penttila, S. I.; Ramsay, W. D.; Salas Bacci, A.; Santra, S.; Sharma, M.; Smith, T. B.; Snow, W. M.; Wilburn, W. S.; and Zhu, H., "High-efficiency resonant rf spin rotator with broad phase space acceptance for pulsed polarized cold neutron beams" (2008). Hamilton Digital Commons.
https://digitalcommons.hamilton.edu/articles/28

Notes

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Physical Review Special Topics-Accelerators and Beams, vol. 11, no. 8 (2008): 084701. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.11.084701.

Hamilton Areas of Study

Physics