EPJ Techn Instrum (2019) 6: 2
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjti/s40485-019-0051-y

Research article

Low-energy spin-physics experiments with polarized beams and targets at the COSY storage ring

¹ Universitá di Ferrara and INFN, Ferrara, 44122, Italy
² Institut für Kernphysik, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, 52425, Germany
³ High Energy Physics Department, St. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, 188350, Russia
⁴ Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, 141980, Russia
⁵ Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Bonn, 53115, Germany
⁶ Institute for Advanced Simulation, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, 52425, Germany
⁷ Zentralinstitut für Engineering und Technologie (ZEA-1), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, 52425, Germany
⁸ High Energy Physics Institute, Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, 0186, Georgia, USA
⁹ UGS Gerlinde Schulteis and Partner GbR, Langenbernsdorf, 08428, Germany
¹⁰ Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow, 119334, Russia
¹¹ Phys. Institut der Universität Erlangen Nürberg, Erlangen, 91058, Germany
¹² INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, 70126, Italy
¹³ Department of Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, SE-10691, Sweden
¹⁴ Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia
¹⁵ Dubna State University, Dubna, 141980, Russia
¹⁶ Department of Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia
¹⁷ Zentralinstitut für Systeme der Elektronik (ZEA-2), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, 52425, Germany
¹⁸ National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, 00681, Poland

^* e-mail: lenisa@fe.infn.it

Received: 24 April 2019
Accepted: 9 July 2019
Published online: 16 August 2019

Abstract

A low-energy spin-physics program is being developed at the COSY storage ring. To support the planned experimental activities, several experimental tools for polarized beams and targets have been developed. The paper presents the physics case and the readiness of the setup for its realization.