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In-situ optical pumping for polarizing 3He neutron spin filters at the China Spallation Neutron Source

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In this paper, we present the performance of a recently developed in-situ spin-exchange optically pumped3 He-neutron spin filter system at the China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS). The system achieved a 3He polarization of over 74% at the beamline BL-20. Analysis of neutron transmission experiment results reveals a neutron polarization of > 90% and an average transmission of 27% for 2.2 Å neutrons, which were maintained for a duration of 120 h of beam time. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first in-situ hyperpolarized 3He system incorporated on a neutron beamline in China. This technology is expected to provide stable, wide-angle, and highly polarized neutrons at the CSNS for materials research and fundamental neutron physics.

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  1. Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Junpei Zhang, Chuyi Huang, Zecong Qin, Fan Ye, Syed Mohd Amir, Ahmed Salman, Yuchen Dong, Long Tian, Zachary Nortis Buck, Wolfgang Kreuzpaintner, Matthew Musgrave, Xin Qi, Tianhao Wang & Xin Tong

  2. Spallation Neutron Source Science Center, Dongguan, 523803, China

    Junpei Zhang, Chuyi Huang, Zecong Qin, Fan Ye, Syed Mohd Amir, Ahmed Salman, Yuchen Dong, Long Tian, Zachary Nortis Buck, Wolfgang Kreuzpaintner, Matthew Musgrave, Xin Qi, Tianhao Wang & Xin Tong

  3. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Chuyi Huang, Ahmed Salman & Yuchen Dong

  4. College of Materials Science and Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, China

    Fan Ye

  5. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, 80305, USA

    Zachary Nortis Buck

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This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2020YFA0406000), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11875265), Scientific Instrument Developing Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. ZD-KYYQ20190004), Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (Grant No. 2019B1515120079), and Dongguan Introduction Program of Leading Innovative and Entrepreneurial Talents (Grant No. 20191122). We give special thanks to our glassblower Junsong Xie, who has been supportive in this project since the beginning. We are grateful to Dr. Songlin Wang for his guidance during the neutron tests on BL-20 at the CSNS. We also thank Michael Souza from Princeton University, United States of America for his generous advice and technical help to our work.

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Zhang, J., Huang, C., Qin, Z. et al. In-situ optical pumping for polarizing 3He neutron spin filters at the China Spallation Neutron Source. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 65, 241011 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-021-1876-0

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