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THPCH161 | Status of the Polarized Electron Gun at the S-DALINAC | 3173 |
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Aiming at an extension of the experimenting capabilities for nuclear structure physics at low momentum transfer at the superconducting Darmstadt electron linear accelerator S-DALINAC, a polarized electron gun is being constructed. The new injector will be able to supply the S-DALINAC with 100 keV polarized electrons and should complement the present, unpolarized thermionic source. The design requirements are a degree of polarization of at least 80%, a mean current intensity of 0.06 mA and a 3 GHz cw structure. The basic design of the gun was adapted from the source of polarized electrons at MAMI, Mainz*, and optimized in various simulations. The active material is a strained layer GaAs crystal which is exposed to an 830 nm pulsed laser beam. We report on the status of the polarized source, the preparation setup and a test beam line.
*K. Aulenbacher et al., Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 391, 498 (1997). |