Polarized Protons from the Elastic Scattering of<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>α</mml:mi></mml:math>-Particles by Hydrogen

Abstract

The prediction that at certain angles the elastically scattered protons will be highly polarized for incident energies up to at least 10 Mev was checked in detail by examining the dependence of polarization on scattering angle for 10Mev protons on He/sup 4/. A method was devised for obtaining a highly- polarized and well-collimated beam of 10-Mev protons of sufficient intensity for use in elastic and inelastic scattering experiments. (M.H.R.)