Measurement of the polarization of a high energy muon beam

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Adeva, B. [1 ]
Ahmad, S. [1 ]
Arvidson, A. [1 ]
Badelek, B. [1 ]
Ballintijn, M.K. [1 ]
Bardin, G. [1 ]
Baum, G. [1 ]
Berglund, P. [1 ]
Betev, L. [1 ]
Bird, I.G. [1 ]
Birsa, R. [1 ]
Bjorkholm, P. [1 ]
Bonner, B.E. [1 ]
de Botton, N. [1 ]
Boutemeur, M. [1 ]
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[1] Univ of Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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美国国家科学基金会;
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Dosimetry - High energy physics - Molecular structure - Monte Carlo methods - Particle accelerators - Polarimeters - Polarization - Protons - Spectrum analysis;
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A muon beam polarimeter has been built for the SMC experiment at the CERN SPS, for muon energies of 100 to 200 GeV. The beam polarization is determined from the energy spectrum of positrons from the decay μ+&rarre+νcν¯μ. A polarization of -0.82 is measured with a relative systematic accuracy of 3%.
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