Tilted foils polarization at REX-ISOLDE
Abstract
The tilted-foils nuclear-spin polarization method has been evaluated using the REX-ISOLDE linear accelerator at the ISOLDE facility, CERN. A beam of Li-8 delivered with an energy of 300 keV/u traversed through one Mylar foil to degrade the beam energy to 200 keV/u and consequently through 10 thin diamond-like carbon foils to polarize the nuclear spin. The attained nuclear spin polarization of 3.6 +/- 0.3% was measured with a beta-NMR setup. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.