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Published on: September 4, 2016
Compact retarding-potential Mott polarimeter
D D Neufeld1, H Aliabadi, F B Dunning
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005, USA.
Abstract:
A simple compact retarding-potential Mott polarimeter is described that operates at an electron accelerating voltage of 25 kV. With a thorium target the instrument provides efficiencies eta [=S2eff(I/I0), where Seff is the effective asymmetry (Sherman) function and I/I0 is the scattering efficiency] of approximately 1.3 x 10(-4) which are similar to the best values obtained using earlier Mott polarimeters. The present instrument, however, occupies a much smaller volume and is suitable for a wide range of applications involving angle- and/or energy-resolved polarization measurements.
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