001040662 001__ 1040662 001040662 005__ 20250324082842.0 001040662 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.22323/1.472.0005 001040662 0247_ $$2datacite_doi$$a10.34734/FZJ-2025-01993 001040662 037__ $$aFZJ-2025-01993 001040662 041__ $$aEnglish 001040662 1001_ $$0P:(DE-Juel1)133882$$aEngels, Ralf$$b0$$eCorresponding author 001040662 1112_ $$a20th International Workshop on Polarized Source, Targets, and Polarimetry$$cJefferson Lab$$d2024-09-22 - 2024-09-27$$gPSTP2024$$wNewport News 001040662 245__ $$aNew Insights into Sona Transitions 001040662 260__ $$bSissa Medialab Trieste$$c2025 001040662 300__ $$a005 001040662 3367_ $$2ORCID$$aCONFERENCE_PAPER 001040662 3367_ $$033$$2EndNote$$aConference Paper 001040662 3367_ $$2BibTeX$$aINPROCEEDINGS 001040662 3367_ $$2DRIVER$$aconferenceObject 001040662 3367_ $$2DataCite$$aOutput Types/Conference Paper 001040662 3367_ $$0PUB:(DE-HGF)8$$2PUB:(DE-HGF)$$aContribution to a conference proceedings$$bcontrib$$mcontrib$$s1742376100_14274 001040662 520__ $$aThe Sona method, described in 1968 by Peter Sona, has been used in polarized sources of the Lamb-shift type and is still important at optically pumped ion sources, e.g. at BNL. The trick of this method is that an electron polarization of a hydrogen beam, e.g. produced by charge exchange of a proton beam with optically pumped rubidium atoms, can be transferred into nuclear polarization. For this purpose, the electron-polarized hydrogen atoms have to pass a zero-crossing of a longitudinal magnetic field that acts as quantization axis. This non-adiabatic passage exchanges the occupation numbers of the "pure" hyperfine substates |1> and |3>, but keeps the “mixed” states |2> and |4>. Thus, the atoms in a hydrogen beam in the states |1> and |2>, both characterized by $m_J$=+1/2, will end up in the states |2> and |3> that have both $m_I$=−1/2.Like other groups operating such a Sona unit for metastable hydrogen atoms, we observed strong oscillations of the occupation numbers of the involved hyperfine substates. These depend on several parameters like the magnetic field shape and amplitude of the Sona unit or the velocity of the hydrogen beam. In this proceeding we discussed the theoretical explanation of this effect and possible application for future polarized sources. 001040662 536__ $$0G:(DE-HGF)POF4-612$$a612 - Cosmic Matter in the Laboratory (POF4-612)$$cPOF4-612$$fPOF IV$$x0 001040662 536__ $$0G:(GEPRIS)533904660$$aDFG project G:(GEPRIS)533904660 - Eine vielseitige Polarisationsmethode für Teilchen mit einfachen Hyperfeinstrukturen (533904660)$$c533904660$$x1 001040662 588__ $$aDataset connected to CrossRef Conference 001040662 65027 $$0V:(DE-MLZ)SciArea-200$$2V:(DE-HGF)$$aNuclear Physics$$x0 001040662 65017 $$0V:(DE-MLZ)GC-2001-2016$$2V:(DE-HGF)$$aNuclei and Particles$$x0 001040662 7001_ $$0P:(DE-Juel1)131108$$aBüscher, Markus$$b1$$ufzj 001040662 7001_ $$0P:(DE-Juel1)192187$$aFaatz, Nicolas$$b2$$ufzj 001040662 7001_ $$aKannis, Chrysovalantis$$b3 001040662 7001_ $$0P:(DE-Juel1)131326$$aSefzick, Thomas$$b4$$ufzj 001040662 7001_ $$0P:(DE-Juel1)133754$$aSoltner, Helmut$$b5$$ufzj 001040662 7001_ $$aPütz, Simon$$b6 001040662 773__ $$a10.22323/1.472.0005$$p005$$v472 001040662 8564_ $$uhttps://pos.sissa.it/472/005/pdf 001040662 8564_ $$uhttps://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1040662/files/PSTP2024_005.pdf$$yOpenAccess 001040662 909CO $$ooai:juser.fz-juelich.de:1040662$$pdnbdelivery$$pdriver$$pVDB$$popen_access$$popenaire 001040662 915__ $$0StatID:(DE-HGF)0510$$2StatID$$aOpenAccess 001040662 915__ $$0LIC:(DE-HGF)CCBYNCND4$$2HGFVOC$$aCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 001040662 9141_ $$y2025 001040662 9101_ $$0I:(DE-588b)5008462-8$$6P:(DE-Juel1)133882$$aForschungszentrum Jülich$$b0$$kFZJ 001040662 9101_ $$0I:(DE-588b)5008462-8$$6P:(DE-Juel1)131108$$aForschungszentrum Jülich$$b1$$kFZJ 001040662 9101_ $$0I:(DE-588b)5008462-8$$6P:(DE-Juel1)192187$$aForschungszentrum Jülich$$b2$$kFZJ 001040662 9101_ $$0I:(DE-588b)5008462-8$$6P:(DE-Juel1)131326$$aForschungszentrum Jülich$$b4$$kFZJ 001040662 9101_ $$0I:(DE-588b)5008462-8$$6P:(DE-Juel1)133754$$aForschungszentrum Jülich$$b5$$kFZJ 001040662 9131_ $$0G:(DE-HGF)POF4-612$$1G:(DE-HGF)POF4-610$$2G:(DE-HGF)POF4-600$$3G:(DE-HGF)POF4$$4G:(DE-HGF)POF$$aDE-HGF$$bForschungsbereich Materie$$lMatter and the Universe$$vCosmic Matter in the Laboratory$$x0 001040662 920__ $$lyes 001040662 9201_ $$0I:(DE-Juel1)IKP-2-20111104$$kIKP-2$$lExperimentelle Hadrondynamik$$x0 001040662 9201_ $$0I:(DE-Juel1)PGI-6-20110106$$kPGI-6$$lElektronische Eigenschaften$$x1 001040662 9201_ $$0I:(DE-Juel1)ITE-20250108$$kITE$$lInstitute of Technology and Engineering$$x2 001040662 980__ $$acontrib 001040662 980__ $$aVDB 001040662 980__ $$aUNRESTRICTED 001040662 980__ $$aI:(DE-Juel1)IKP-2-20111104 001040662 980__ $$aI:(DE-Juel1)PGI-6-20110106 001040662 980__ $$aI:(DE-Juel1)ITE-20250108 001040662 9801_ $$aFullTexts