Physics & Applications of Polarized Noble Gases
an informal workshop w/ bagels

May 19, 2009 ♦ Room 204, Jesse Beam Laboratory
Physics Department ♦ University of Virginia
382 McCormick Road ♦ Charlottesville, Virginia
Committees
"Organizing"      :  Tom Gentile, NIST Physics Laboratory
"Advisory"        :  Thad Walker, University of Wisconsin
"Local Organizing":  Gordon Cates, Physics & Radiology Department, University of Virginia
                     Jaideep Singh, Physics Department, University of Virginia
Participant List

 9:00 AM "Clinical Applications of Hyperpolarized Gas"
          (N/A)
          Tally Altes
          Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville  

 9:30 AM "Quantifiable aspects of lung structure using hyperpolarized-gas diffusion NMR"
         (N/A)
         Wilson Miller
         Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville  

10:00 AM  "Hyperpolarized 129Xe: Clinical Progress and New Ideas from Animal Imaging" 
          (N/A)
                                           &
                    "SEOP with Cs: Preliminary experience polarizing 129Xe"
          (N/A)
          Bas Driehuys
          Duke University 

10:30 AM break 

11:00 AM "Physics Challenges for Spin-Exchange Optical Pumping of 3He"
         (pdf, 19.5 MB)
         Thad Walker
         Univ. of Wisconsin 

11:30 AM "Gas-phase relaxation of 129Xe"
         (pdf, 1.3 MB)
         Brian Saam
         Univ. of Utah  
             

12:00 PM Lunch 

 2:00 PM "Recent Advances in Laser-Polarized 3He Targets for Electron Scattering at JLab"
         (pdf, 33.8 MB)
         Jaideep Singh
         Univ. of Virginia
         Charlottesville 

 2:30 PM "SEOP polarization of 3He and 129Xe at high volumetric rates"
         (pdf, 2.9 MB)
         Iulian C. Ruset et al, 
         Univ. of New Hampshire and Xemed, Inc. 

 3:00 PM break 

 3:30 PM "Neutron spin filter development and application"
         (N/A)
         Wangchun Chen
         NIST and Indiana University  

 4:00 PM "R&D on SEOP systems for neutron scattering applications at ORNL"
         (N/A)
         Hal Lee
         Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Spallation Neutron Source   

 4:30 PM "Compact SEOP Filling Station for HYSPEC spectrometer"
         (ppt, 2.1 MB)
         Tony Tong
         Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Spallation Neutron Source 

40th Annual Meeting of the APS DAMOP
Session B4: Polarized Atoms

May 20, 2009 ♦ Room 108, Clark Hall
Department of Environmental Sciences ♦ University of Virginia
291 McCormick Road ♦ Charlottesville, Virginia
Chair: Tom Gentile, National Institute of Standards and Technology

10:30 AM Preparation of Laser-Polarized Xenon at High Xe Densities and High Resonant Laser Powers Provided by Volume Holographic Grating-Narrowed LDAs
         (ppt, 3.8 MB)
         B4.00001 Abstract
         Boyd Goodson , Nicholas Whiting , Panayiotis Nikolaou , Neil Eschmann , Michael Barlow
         Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

10:42 AM Characterization of a Low Pressure, High Capacity $^{129}$Xe Flow-Through Polarizer
         (pdf, 1.3 MB)
         B4.00002 Abstract
         Brian Saam , Geoffry Schrank , Zayd Ma , Allison Schoeck
         University of Utah

10:54 AM Polarized $^{3}$He Gas for Neutron Scattering
         (N/A)
	 B4.00003 Abstract
         Wangchun Chen , Ross Erwin , Shannon Watson , Thomas Gentile , Changbo Fu
         NIST and Indiana University

11:06 AM Application of Polarized 3He Cells in Neutron Interferometry
         (N/A)
         B4.00004 Abstract
         Michael Huber , Fred Wietfeldt , Muhammad Arif , Thomas Gentile , WangChun Chen , Dmitry Pushin , Liang Yang , Daniel Hussey , Timothy Black
         Tulane University & National Institute of Standards and Technology

11:18 AM Using MR imaging methods for measurement of 3-He cells during pumping
         (ppt, 8.3 MB)
         B4.00005 Abstract
         Steven Parnell , Martin Deppe , Stephen Boag , Mark Boyce , Selma Ajraoui , Juan Parra-Robles , Jim Wild
         University of Sheffield

11:30 AM Online SEOP Polarized 3He for Neutron Applications
         (N/A)
         B4.00006 Abstract
         Earl Babcock , S. Boag , T.E. Chupp , T.R. Gentile , A. Petoukhov , T.G. Walker
         JCNS, Munich Germany
 
11:42 AM $^3$He Relaxation Time Measurements at $\sim$400mK for the neutron electric dipole moment (nEDM) experiment
         (pdf, 3.0 MB)
	 B4.00007 Abstract
         Qiang Ye
         Duke University

11:54 AM Spatial Polarization Profile in an Optically Pumped Alkali Vapor
         (pdf 2.6 MB)
	 B4.00008 Abstract
         Ben Olsen , Brian Patton , Yuan-Yu Jau , Will Happer
         Princeton University

12:06 PM Photon Budget in Spin Exchange Optical Pumping
         (N/A)
         B4.00009 Abstract
         Brian Lancor , Robert Wyllie , Thad Walker
         University of Wisconsin-Madison

12:18 PM Direct measurement of the dwell time of spin polarized Rb atoms on coated Pyrex glass surfaces using light shift
         (N/A)
	 B4.00010 Abstract 
         K.F. Zhao , M. Schaden , Z. Wu
         Department of Physics, Rutgers University

12:30 PM Universal Long-Time Behavior of Nuclear Spin Decays in Solid Hyperpolarized Xenon
         (pdf, 2.1 MB)
	 B4.00011 Abstract
         Brian Saam , Steven W. Morgan , Boris V. Fine
         University of Utah

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