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Measurement of the SMC muon beam polarisation using the asymmetry in the elastic scattering off polarised electrons

E. BurtinD. CrabbT. KageyaM. BoutemeurD. FaschingF. Perrot-kunneJ. E.j. OberskiT. MatsudaD.v. PeshekhonovI. SaboJ. YlöstaloJay RobertsJ. CranshawM. Grosse PerdekampI.a. SavinH. GillyJ. NassalskiN. De BottonTakahiro IwataVictor KukhtinLawrence PinskyA. BravarB. W. MayesE. ArikW. TlaczalaJ. S. MccarthyH. J. KesslerRoland WindmoldersM. LoweA. ArvidsonH. PereiraM. LitmaathA. NagaitsevY. MiyachiM. LamannaIgor GolutvinF. FeinsteinDavid MillerL. NaumannJulien FaivreG. UnelT. O. NiinikoskiT. GaussiranG.k. MallotF. TessarottoW. KrögerH. PostmaJ. KirylukP. SchiavonA. SchillerB. DerroAlessandro BressanD. Von HarrachLau GatignonAbhay DeshpandeN.i. ZamiatinL. RopelewskiK. P. SchülerP. BerglundE. RondioE. RondioJ. H. MoromisatoG. ReicherzP. BjörkholmYannis K. SemertzidisMayda VelascoF. MarieL. BetevS. EichblattPatrick HautleT. HasegawaG.i. SmirnovS. Dalla TorreAlan D. MartinJ. M. Le GoffT. ÇUhadarT. ÇUhadarC. CavataRegine WillumeitMatias RodriguezS. K. DhawanC. DulyaC. DulyaG. Van MiddelkoopA. MagnonB. FroisGünter BaumI. KiryushinA. OgawaE. M. KabußN. De GrootJ. VogtNaoaki HorikawaE. Von GoelerP. ShanahanA. KishiG. RädelG. IgoW. MeyerS. RockClemens A. HeuschF. SimeoniR. SeitzK. HaftRicardo PiegaiaM. PloA. De LesquenJ. PretzL. KlostermannJ. A. GarzonJ. A. GarzonFranco BradamanteM. GiorgiSt. GoertzB. BadelekB. BadelekS. ForthmannC. FernandezC. FernandezR. BirsaN. HayashiA. SandaczC.s. OzbenYu. KisselevT. LindqvistJ. KyynäräinenK. ZarembaA. WitzmannD. L. AdamsJ. SaboridoT. AkdoganG. BardinA. RijllartBernardo AdevaA. DyringHeinrich B. StuhrmannA. StaudeJ. ZhaoA. GallasT. J. KetelV. W. HughesUlrich LandgrafV. KrivokhijineA. KarevF. LeharT. PussieuxWojciech WislickiJ. LichtenstadtA. SteinmetzA. SteinmetzB. E. BonnerRudiger VossS. BültmannD. PoseMichal SzleperS. IshimotoS. PlatchkovJ. MartinoR. Van DantzigDaniel B. KramerSergey M. SergeevG. GraciaD. ThersE. P. SichtermannM. ClocchiattiU. StieglerKunikazu MoriK. MedvedAnna ZanettiK. KurekC. A. WhittenA. Tripet

subject

electronNuclear and High Energy PhysicsSMC; DIS; muon polarimetermedia_common.quotation_subjectmuon beamElectronAsymmetryNuclear physicsMagnetizationpolarisation measurementDetectors and Experimental TechniquesNuclear ExperimentInstrumentationmedia_commonPhysicsElastic scatteringDISLarge Hadron ColliderMuonpolarised scatteringSMCmagnetised targetPolarimeterpolarised muonPolarization (waves)muon polarimeterPhysics::Accelerator PhysicsHigh Energy Physics::Experimentpolarised

description

A muon beam polarimeter was built for the SMC experiment at the CERN SPS, for beam energies of 100 and 190 GeV. The beam polarisation is determined from the asymmetry in the elastic scattering off the polarised electrons of a ferromagnetic target whose magnetisation is periodically reversed. At muon energies of 100 and 190 GeV the measured polarisation is P-mu = -0.80 +/- 0.03 (stat.) +/- 0.02 (syst.) and P-mu = - 0.797 +/- 0.011 (stat.) +/- 0.012 (syst.), respectively. These results agree with measurements of the beam polarisation using a shape analysis of the decay positron energy spectrum. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2000-03-21
10.1016/s0168-9002(99)01017-7https://hdl.handle.net/11368/2557683