High Rate Production of Polarized 3He with Meta-Stability Exchange Method

Sol-gel coated glass cells for spin-exchange polarized 3He

We have developed a high-purity sol-gel coating for the interior surface of glass cells used for polarizing He by spin-exchange optical pumping. The coating is designed to minimize spin relaxation due to wall collisions. A longitudinal spin-relaxation time T1 in a sol-gel coated Pyrex cell of 34468 h was achieved, the longest T1 we have ever recorded for a gaseous sample. Repeated trials indica...

Neutron beam effects on spin-exchange-polarized 3He.

We have observed depolarization effects when high intensity cold neutron beams are incident on alkali-metal spin-exchange-polarized 3He cells used as neutron spin filters. This was first observed as a reduction of the maximum attainable 3He polarization and was attributed to a decrease of alkali-metal polarization, which led us to directly measure alkali-metal polarization and spin relaxation o...

Thermodynamic properties of polarized liquid 3He along different isentropic paths

The dependence of some thermodynamic properties of spin-polarized liquid 3He such as velocity of sound, adiabatic index, isentropic compressibility and temperature on the spin polarization has been investigated along different isentropic paths. The Lennard-Jones potential has been used in our calculations. It has been found that for higher values of entropy, the spin polarization has greate...

Polarized 3He : dendritic melting

THE SLAC HIGH–DENSITY GASEOUS POLARIZED 3He TARGET*

A large-scale high-pressure gaseous 3He polarized target has been developed for use with a high-intensity polarized electron beam at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. This target was used successfully in an experiment to study the spin structure of the neutron. The target provided an areal density of about 7×1021 nuclei/cm2 and operated at 3He polarizations between about 30% and 40% for t...