Abstract
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. © 2012 American Physical Society.
Recommended Citation
R. Märtin and G. Weber and R. Barday and Y. Fritzsche and U. Spillmann and W. Chen and R. D. Dubois and J. Enders and M. Hegewald and S. Hess and A. Surzhykov and D. B. Thorn and S. Trotsenko and M. Wagner, "Polarization Transfer of Bremsstrahlung Arising from Spin-polarized Electrons," Physical Review Letters, vol. 108, no. 26, article no. 264801, American Physical Society, Jun 2012.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.264801
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Physics
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
1079-7114; 0031-9007
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Article - Journal
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Publication Date
26 Jun 2012
