A Ramsey apparatus for proton spins in flowing water.

• DOI: 10.48350/183469
• Publication Date: 2023-08-01
• Authors: Schulthess, Ivo; Fratangelo, Anast...; Hautle, Patrick; Heil, Philipp; Markaj, Gjon; Persoz, Marc; Pistillo, Ciro; Thorne, Jacob; Piegsa, Florian M
• Keywords: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex); Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors; 530 Physics; FOS: Physical sciences; Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); High Energy Physics - Experiment

We present an apparatus that applies Ramsey's method of separated oscillatory fields to proton spins in water molecules. The setup consists of a water circuit, a spin polarizer, a magnetically shielded interaction region with various radio frequency elements, and a nuclear magnetic resonance system to measure the spin polarization. We show that this apparatus can be used for Rabi resonance measurements and to investigate magnetic and pseudomagnetic field effects in Ramsey-type precision measurements with a sensitivity below 100 pT.