First spin flipping of a stored spin-1 polarized beam

Phys Rev Lett. 2003 Nov 21;91(21):214801. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.214801. Epub 2003 Nov 21.

Abstract

We recently studied spin flipping of a 270 MeV vertically polarized deuteron beam stored in the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility Cooler Ring. We adiabatically swept an rf solenoid's frequency through an rf-induced spin resonance and observed its effect on the deuterons' vector and tensor polarizations. After optimizing the resonance crossing rate and maximizing the solenoid's voltage, we measured a vector spin-flip efficiency of 94.2%+/-0.3%. We also found striking behavior of the spin-1 tensor polarization.