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TMF, 2004 Volume 139, Number 3, Pages 491–498 (Mi tmf71)

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Twisting of a Spinning Particle Trajectory in an Absorbing Medium

N. R. Sadykov

Russian Federal Nuclear Center E. I. Zababakhin All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics

Abstract: In the geometric optics approximation, we predict the effect of additional twisting of spinning particle trajectories in an absorbing medium. The effect is determined by the particle polarization (chirality) and the curvature of the particle trajectory. Using our results, we quantitatively estimate the deviation from the mirror reflection law for ultracold neutrons.

Keywords: polarization, Magnus optical effect, chirality, neutron guide, electrostatic lenses.

Received: 09.04.2003
Revised: 16.09.2003

DOI: 10.4213/tmf71


 English version:
Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 2004, 139:3, 859–865

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