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The new frozen spin polarized target for experiments at the polarized beam of the real photon facility A2 of the MAMI accelerator is described. The A2-collaboration at the Mainz Microtron MAMI is measuring photon absorption cross section using circularly and linearly polarized photons up to the energy of 1.5 GeV. The photons are produced in the’ Bremsstrahlungs’ process. In the years 2005/2006 the Crystal Ball detector with its unique capability to cope with multi photon final states was set up in Mainz. Since 2010 the experimental apparatus has been completed by a polarized target. The horizontal dilution refrigerator of the Frozen-Spin Target has been constructed and is operated in close cooperation with the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia. The system offers the opportunity to provide longitudinally and transversely polarized protons and deuteron. In this paper the operation experience of this new Frozen-Spin Target and first results from the runs in 2010 and 2011 are presented.
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This work was supported by the ‘Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft’ (SFB 443), DFG-RFBR (Grant No. 09-0291330), the European Community-Research Infrastructure Activity under the FP6 ‘Structuring the European Research Area’ program (Hadron Physics, contract number RII3-CT-2004-506078).
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Thomas, A., Borisov, N.S., Arends, H.J. et al. The new frozen spin target at MAMI. Phys. Part. Nuclei 44, 964–967 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063779613060221
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