INTERDISCIPLINARY EXPERIMENTS WITH POLARIZED HE-3

Authors
BECKER J BERMUTH J EBERT M GROSSMANN T HEIL W HOFMANN D HUMBLOT H LEDUC M OTTEN EW ROHE D SURKAU R
Citation
J. Becker et al., INTERDISCIPLINARY EXPERIMENTS WITH POLARIZED HE-3, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 402(2-3), 1998, pp. 327-336
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Physics, Particles & Fields","Instument & Instrumentation",Spectroscopy
Journal title
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment → ACNP
ISSN journal
01689002
Volume
402
Issue
2-3
Year of publication
1998
Pages
327 - 336
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1998)402:2-3<327:IEWPH>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
Optical pumping of metastable He-3 atoms is a very efficient method to produce large quantities of nuclear spin-polarized He-3. Recent devel opments in mechanical compression of the gas, its storage and transpor t allow for its flexible use in different fields of physics and applie d science. Among these are (1) scattering experiments of polarized bea ms from polarized He-3-targets, (2) He-3 as neutron spin filter to pol arize neutron beams at research reactors, and (3) polarized He-3 gas i nhaled into the lungs to perform magnetic resonance imaging. The paper discusses the different topics along with results obtained in a first round of experiments.