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Dec, 2012

Production of spin-controlled rare isotope beams

NATURE PHYSICS
  • Yuichi Ichikawa
  • Hideki Ueno
  • Yuji Ishii
  • Takeshi Furukawa
  • Akihiro Yoshimi
  • Daisuke Kameda
  • Hiroshi Watanabe
  • Nori Aoi
  • Koichiro Asahi
  • Dimiter L. Balabanski
  • Raphael Chevrier
  • Jean-Michel Daugas
  • Naoki Fukuda
  • Georgi Georgiev
  • Hironori Hayashi
  • Hiroaki Iijima
  • Naoto Inabe
  • Takeshi Inoue
  • Masayasu Ishihara
  • Toshiyuki Kubo
  • Tsubasa Nanao
  • Tetsuya Ohnishi
  • Kunifumi Suzuki
  • Masato Tsuchiya
  • Hiroyuki Takeda
  • Mustafa M. Rajabali
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Volume
8
Number
12
First page
918
Last page
922
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1038/NPHYS2457
Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP

The degree of freedom of spin in quantum systems serves as an unparalleled laboratory where intriguing quantum physical properties can be observed, and the ability to control spin is a powerful tool in physics research. We propose a method for controlling spin in a system of rare isotopes which takes advantage of the mechanism of the projectile fragmentation reaction combined with the momentum-dispersion matching technique. The present method was verified in an experiment at the RIKEN RI Beam Factory, in which a degree of alignment of 8% was achieved for the spin of a rare isotope Al-32. The figure of merit for the present method was found to be greater than that of the conventional method by a factor of more than 50.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/NPHYS2457
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000311888200022&DestApp=WOS_CPL
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  • DOI : 10.1038/NPHYS2457
  • ISSN : 1745-2473
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000311888200022

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