MuSR science requires the availabilty of intense beams of polarised positive muons. At the ISIS pulsed muon facility at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory the muons are generated from a low Z thin slab graphite target inserted in the proton beam. We report on the use of the Monte Carlo simulation code Geant4 in simulations of the performance of the current muon target. The results are benchmarked a...

ii Declaration I wrote this thesis by myself and used none but the indicated resources. Preface In recent years, a lot of new developments in solid state physics have been related to the field of spin electronics. The spin electronic or spintronic device not only uses the charge of electrons to carry information, but also their spin. For example, this allows one to use magnetic fields to manipu...

Based on the observation of sizeable target-transverse-spin asymmetries in single-hadron and hadron-pair production Semi-Inclusive measurements Deep Inelastic Scattering (SIDIS), chiral-odd transversity quark distribution functions $h_1^q$ are nowadays well established. Several possible channels to access these were originally proposed. One candidate is measurement polarisation $\Lambda$ hypero...

Chiral image contrast is demonstrated using enantiopure Eu(iii) complexes that emit right or left-handed circularly polarised light of opposite sign, at selected wavelengths.