Speaker
Dr
Dieter Oellers for the PAX Collaboration
(INFN Ferrara)
Description
A stored polarized antiproton beam opens a wide area of new
physical investigations. Even though there were several topical
conferences since the 1980s, no method to provide
a stored polarized antiproton beam could be established up to now.
The PAX-Collaboration is investigating the method of
spin filtering. A stored beam traverses
a polarized gas target and builds up polarization by spin dependent
attenuation. This method has been proven to work with protons
at the Heidelberg TSR in 1992. In August/September 2011 the
spin filtering method is repeated at Jülich COSY to
commission the setup and detection system for a later
first spin filtering experiment with antiprotons at the CERN-AD.
The spin filtering method and first results of the COSY
experiment will be presented.
Primary author
Dr
Dieter Oellers for the PAX Collaboration
(INFN Ferrara)
