On the Possibility for Polarizing Slow Neutrons by Longitudinally Polarized Proton Filter

Abstract

It is shown that the low energy neutron beam can be polarized along the direction of the neutron beam using a longitudinally polarized proton filter. The polarizability of the neutron is nearly the same as in the case using the transversally polarized proton filter in the neutron energy region below 1 MeV and is higher in the energy region above 1 MeV. The difference of the polarizability between the two cases is estimated.