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| Title | PRECISION MØLLER POLARIMETRY AND APPLICATIONS AT JEFFERSON LABORATORY |
| Authors | William Henry |
| JLAB number | JLAB-PHY-19-2968 |
| LANL number | (None) |
| Other number | DOE/OR/23177-4745 |
| Document Type(s) | (Thesis) |
| Supported by U.S. Naval Research: | No |
| Supported by Jefferson Lab LDRD Funding: | No |
| Funding Source: | Nuclear Physics (NP) |
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Thesis A PHD thesis Advisor(s) : Cynthia Keppel (Jlab) Jim Napolitano (Temple) | |
| Publication Abstract: | "Jefferson Lab?s cutting-edge parity-violating electron scattering program has increasingly stringent requirements for systematic errors. Beam polarimetry is often one of the dominant systematic errors in these experiments. A new Møller Polarimeter in Hall A of Jefferson Lab (JLab) was installed in 2015 and has taken first measurements for a polarized scattering experiment. Upcoming parity violation experiments in Hall A include CREX, PREX-II, MOLLER and SOLID with the latter two requiring <0.5% precision on beam polarization measurements, a precision which has not been achieved to date. The polarimeter measures the Møller scattering rates of the polarized electron beam incident upon an iron target placed in a saturating magnetic field. The spectrometer consists of four quadrupoles and one momentum selection dipole. The detector is designed to measure the scattered and knock out target electrons in coincidence. Beam polarization is extracted by constructing an asymmetry from the scattering rates when the incident electron spin is parallel and antiparallel to the target electron spin. The largest systematic errors associated with Møller polarimetry comes from the precision that the target polarization and the detector acceptance is known will be discussed. Other errors including the Levchuk effect, beam stability, and target heating will be addressed." |
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| Group: | Hall A |
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