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16–19 Feb 2023
Banff Centre
Canada/Mountain timezone

Compton Polarimetry at the Electron-Ion Collider

16 Feb 2023, 20:45
15m
KC 303 (Banff Centre)

KC 303

Banff Centre

Contributed Oral Particle Physics February 16 Evening Session

Speaker

Akshaya Vijay (University Of Manitoba)

Description

The US-based future Electron-Ion Collider is a novel tool to address some of the unexplained physics of nucleons, including how their constituents contribute to their properties like spin, mass, etc., by colliding highly polarized electron beams with polarized beams of protons or ions. The high-energy interactions between the electrons and protons help in understanding the internal structure of the proton and one needs to know the polarization of the electron beam used. This is possible using a Compton polarimeter, facilitating Compton scattering of this electron beam with a circularly polarized laser beam. The physical quantities measured in the scattering will correlate to the degree of polarization of the electron beam. My research involves the simulation of transverse and longitudinal polarization of the electron beam with more focus on the effect of transverse beam smearing on transverse polarization measurement. I also have extended the work to evaluate beam synchrotron radiation at different locations at the interaction point in the polarimeter. In this talk, I will be presenting some of the results obtained using the Monte Carlo method in Geant4 simulations.
I acknowledge the support of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) for this research.

Your Email vijaya2@myumanitoba.ca
Supervisor Dr. Wouter Deconinck
Supervisor Email wouter.deconinck@umanitoba.ca
Funding Agency Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

Primary author

Akshaya Vijay (University Of Manitoba)

Presentation materials