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Polarization transfer of Bremsstrahlung arising from spin-polarized electrons

We report on a study of the polarization transfer between transversely polarized incident electrons and the emitted x rays for electron-atom bremsstrahlung. By means of Compton polarimetry we performed for the first time an energy-differential measurement of the complete properties of bremsstrahlung...

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Main Authors: Märtin, Renate (Author) , Surzhykov, Andrey (Author) , Winters, Danyal Ferdinant Alexander (Author) , Yerokhin, Vladimir (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: 26 June 2012
In: Physical review letters
Year: 2012, Volume: 108, Issue: 26, Pages: 264801
ISSN:1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.264801
Online Access:Verlag, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.264801
Verlag, Volltext: https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.264801
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Author Notes:R. Märtin, G. Weber, R. Barday, Y. Fritzsche, U. Spillmann, W. Chen, R.D. DuBois, J. Enders, M. Hegewald, S. Hess, A. Surzhykov, D.B. Thorn, S. Trotsenko, M. Wagner, D.F.A. Winters, V.A. Yerokhin, and Th. Stöhlker
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Summary:We report on a study of the polarization transfer between transversely polarized incident electrons and the emitted x rays for electron-atom bremsstrahlung. By means of Compton polarimetry we performed for the first time an energy-differential measurement of the complete properties of bremsstrahlung emission related to linear polarization, i.e., the degree of linear polarization as well as the orientation of the polarization axis. For the high-energy end of the bremsstrahlung continuum the experimental results for both observables show a high sensitivity on the initial electron spin polarization and prove that the polarization orientation is virtually independent of the photon energy.
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ISSN:1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.264801

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