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@INPROCEEDINGS{Westphal:1018169,
author = {Westphal, Moritz and Engels, Ralf W. and Faatz, Nicolas and
Kannis, Chrysovalantis and Klimczok, Berthold and Mandiwal,
Aditya and Maubach, Maike and Soltner, Helmut},
title = {{M}easurement of the occupation number of metastable atoms
in the hyperfine-substate β$_3$ in an atomic hydrogen beam},
volume = {433},
publisher = {Sissa Medialab Trieste, Italy},
reportid = {FZJ-2023-04609},
pages = {007},
year = {2023},
abstract = {After its discovery in 1947 by Willis Eugene Lamb and
Robert C. Retherford the Lamb shift was used to create Lamb
shift polarimeter to separate the 2S${_{1/2}}$ α1 and α2
hyperfinesubstates of hydrogen as well as the α3 substate
of deuterium. But for a new project at theTechnical
University of Munich, investigation of the bound-beta decay
of a neutron into a hydrogen atom anda neutrino, a Lamb
shift polarimeter is needed that is also capable of
separating the β3substate of hydrogen. Unfortunately, our
first attempt to use a Sona transition unit toexchange the
occupation numbers between α1 and β3 failed, because of
the unexpectedcomplexity of the transitions in this unit
[1]. The second idea of using a new kind of spinfilterwhich
uses two radio frequencies to separate all four hyperfine
substates of hydrogen alsofailed.Our third attempt is now to
build a transition unit that can induce magnetic dipole
transitionsbetween α2 and β3 as well as between α2 and
β4 (π transitions, i.e. an exchange of the occupation
numbers of these states). This is a similartransition to
what is used in atomic beam sources, in this case not for
ground state atoms but for metastableatoms, which requires a
much lower radio frequency. Another difference of this new
idea isthe smaller interaction time of the atoms with the
photons inside the transition unit due totheir much higher
velocity of roughly 2⋅10$^5$ m/s compared to velocities of
about 10$^3$ m/s in an atomic beam source.},
month = {Sep},
date = {2022-09-26},
organization = {19th Workshop on Polarized Sources,
Targets and Polarimetry, Mainz
(Germany), 26 Sep 2022 - 30 Sep 2022},
cin = {IKP-2 / IKP-TA / ZEA-1},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IKP-2-20111104 / I:(DE-Juel1)IKP-TA-20111104 /
I:(DE-Juel1)ZEA-1-20090406},
pnm = {612 - Cosmic Matter in the Laboratory (POF4-612)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-612},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)8},
doi = {10.22323/1.433.0007},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1018169},
}