Development of a Dedicated Precision Polarimeter for Charged Particle EDM searches at COSY

18 Feb 2020, 16:25
25m
WBGB 019

WBGB 019

Speaker

Irakli Keshelashvili (Forschungszentrum Juelich)

Description

The international JEDI (Jülich Electric Dipole moment Investigation) collaboration is preparing a first-ever direct measurement of the deuteron Electric Dipole Moment (EDM), using the COSY storage ring at Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany).
A new polarimeter is required to detect the very slow and minuscule polarization change with time: starting
in 2016, we have designed, built and commissioned a new modular type storage ring EDM polarimeter based
on LYSO inorganic scintillator crystals. The polarimeter concept exploits LYSO modules (3x3x8 cm3), individually coupled to modern large area SiPM arrays which are operating at low voltage.
The detector system and its vacuum system have radial symmetry and a thin exit window, making the polarimeter very efficient for online up-down and left-right asymmetry measurements.
After several tests at the external COSY beam, we have recently installed the complete system in the COSY ring for use with internal beams.
In this talk, I will summarize the achievements of our group and discuss the latest results.

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