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@INPROCEEDINGS{Gibbon:911904,
      author       = {Gibbon, Paul and Chitgar, Zahra and Büscher, Markus and
                      Fedorets, Pavel and Lehrach, Andreas and Li, Xiaofeng and
                      Zheng, Chuan},
      title        = {{E}xperimental and numerical studies on laser-generated
                      spin-polarized particle beams},
      reportid     = {FZJ-2022-05151},
      pages        = {207},
      year         = {2022},
      abstract     = {Spin-polarized particle beams are already used for a wide
                      range of applications in nuclear, particle and material
                      physics to probe the structure of matter at the subatomic
                      level. Such sources offer the means to gain insight into
                      quantum chromodynamics, nuclear reactions and symmetry
                      violations, and can in principle even yield enhanced fusion
                      cross-sections in reaction channels of interest. Given the
                      rapid advances in laser-driven particle acceleration over
                      the past 3 decades, attention has recently turned to the
                      question of whether polarized particle beams can also be
                      accelerated via a compact laser-plasma scheme while
                      preserving a high degree of net beam polarization.
                      Experiments by the Jülich team have previously demonstrated
                      that an unpolarized proton source is not polarized during
                      the interaction when subjected to laser acceleration in a
                      gas-jet configuration at multi-mJ energies. These
                      preliminary studies lend confidence to the prospect of
                      accelerating a pre-polarized ion source, which has led to
                      more recent ongoing campaigns using the PHELIX laser system
                      at GSI Darmstadt to accelerate $^3$He and $^4$He ions. The
                      polarization of the laser-driven $^3$He ion beam within a
                      few MeV was analyzed by secondary scattering in a deuterated
                      foil target, both by Rutherford scattering of $^3$He ions
                      and the Deuterium-$^3$He fusion reaction, showing whether
                      the laser-driven $^3$He ion beam is polarized when the
                      pre-polarized $^3$He gas target is utilized. Simulations of
                      these and other higher-intensity experimental configurations
                      using the EPOCH code enhanced with a new spin-tracking
                      module will also be presented with the aim of assessing how
                      well the global beam polarization is conserved.},
      month         = {Jun},
      date          = {2022-06-27},
      organization  = {48th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics,
                       Maastricht (Netherlands), 27 Jun 2022 -
                       1 Jul 2022},
      cin          = {JSC / PGI-6 / IKP-4},
      cid          = {I:(DE-Juel1)JSC-20090406 / I:(DE-Juel1)PGI-6-20110106 /
                      I:(DE-Juel1)IKP-4-20111104},
      pnm          = {5111 - Domain-Specific Simulation $\&$ Data Life Cycle Labs
                      (SDLs) and Research Groups (POF4-511)},
      pid          = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5111},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)8},
      url          = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/911904},
}