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oriented in the same ("spin up") or in the opposite ("spin down") direction with respect to the direction of the magnetic field (which is assumed to be oriented "up"). The "spin down" state has a higher energy than "spin up" state. The polarization arises due to the fact that the rate of transition
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through emission of synchrotron radiation to the "spin down" state is slightly greater than the probability of transition to the "spin up" state. As a result, an initially unpolarized beam of high-energy electrons circulating in a
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The equilibrium polarization given by the Sokolov and Ternov has corrections when the orbit is not perfectly planar. The formula has been generalized by Derbenev and Kondratenko and others.
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is less than one due to the existence of spin–orbital energy exchange, which allows transitions to the "spin up" state (with probability 25.25 times less than to the "spin down" state).
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The effect of radiative polarization provides a unique capability for creating polarized beams of high-energy electrons and positrons that can be used for various experiments.
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after sufficiently long time will have spins oriented in the direction opposite to the magnetic field. Saturation is not complete and is explicitly described by the formula
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is similar, with the only difference that positrons will tend to have spins oriented in the direction parallel to the direction of the magnetic field.
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Typical relaxation time is on the order of minutes and hours. Thus producing a highly polarized beam requires a long enough time and the use of
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Sokolov A. A. and Ternov I. M. (1973): Award N 131 of 7 August 1973 with priority of 26 June 1963, Byull. Otkr. i Izobr., vol.
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Section 21.3 for the theory and section 27.2 for experimental verifications of the Sokolov–Ternov effect.
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is the effect of self-polarization of relativistic electrons or positrons moving at high energy in a
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which, up to now, under experimentally achievable conditions is too small to be observed.
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Synchrotron Radiation Theory and Its Development: in Memory of I. M. Ternov
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1975 – Stanford (USA), with the use of 2.4 GeV SPEAR storage ring.
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The Sokolov–Ternov effect was experimentally observed in the
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A. A. Sokolov; I. M. Ternov (1986). C. W. Kilmister (ed.).
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is the limiting degree of polarization (92.4%), and
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Index

magnetic field
synchrotron radiation
Igor Ternov
Arseny Sokolov
Dirac equation
electron
spin
storage ring
vacuum permittivity
Schwinger field
storage rings
positrons
USSR
Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics
VEPP-2
DESY
PETRA
Unruh effect
Unruh effect
Hawking radiation
Froissart–Stora equation
Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR
"On Polarization and Spin Effects in Synchrotron Radiation Theory"
Bibcode
1964SPhD....8.1203S


ISBN
0-88318-507-5
Synchrotron Radiation Theory and Its Development: in Memory of I. M. Ternov

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