Beschleunigung polarisierter Elektronen in der Bonner Elektronen-Beschleunigeranlage ELSA

Abstract

<b>Acceleration of Polarized Elektrons in the Bonn Elektron Stretcher Accelerator ELSA</b><br /> The future medium energy physics program at the electron stretcher accelerator ELSA of Bonn University mainly relies on experiments using polarized electrons in the energy range from 1 to 3.2 GeV.<br /> To prevent depolarization during acceleration in the circular accelerators several depolarizing resonances have to be corrected for. Intrinsic resonances are compensated using two pulsed betatron tune jump quadrupoles. The influence of imperfection resonances is successfully reduced applying a dynamic closed orbit correction in combination with an empirical harmonic correction on the energy ramp.<br /> Both types of resonances and the correction techniques have been studied in detail. The imperfection resonances were used to calibrate the energy of the stretcher ring with high accuracy. A new technique to extract the beam with horizontal oriented polarization was sucessfully installed. For all energies a polarized electron beam with more than 50 % polarization can now be supplied to the experiments at ELSA, which is demonstrated by measurements using a Møller polarimeter installed in the external beamline.