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A magnetic spectrometer for electron‐positron pair spectroscopy in storage rings
Author(s) -
Hagmann Siegbert,
Hillenbrand PierreMichel,
Litvinov Yuri A.,
Spillmann Uwe,
Stöhlker Thomas
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
x‐ray spectrometry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.447
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1097-4539
pISSN - 0049-8246
DOI - 10.1002/xrs.3065
Subject(s) - spectrometer , storage ring , physics , spectroscopy , positron , pair production , atomic physics , antiproton , nuclear physics , electron , lepton , ion , electron spectrometer , proton , optics , beam (structure) , quantum mechanics , cathode ray
We report an analysis of electron‐optical properties of a toroidal magnetic sector spectrometer and examine parameters for its implementation in a relativistic heavy‐ion storage ring, for example the High Energy Storage ring (HESR) at the future Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) facility. For studies of free–free pair production in heavy‐ion atom collisions, this spectrometer exhibits very high efficiencies for coincident e + –e − pair spectroscopy over a wide range of momenta of emitted lepton pairs. The high coincidence efficiency of the spectrometer is the key for stringent tests of theoretical predictions for the phase space correlation of lepton vector momenta in free–free pair production.