Credit: DOE's Jefferson Lab
The Polarized Electrons for Polarized Positrons (PEPPo) experiment in Jefferson Lab’s CEBAF injector demonstrated a new technique for production of polarized positrons. When an energetic electron beam strikes matter, it produces photons that can further convert their energy in pairs of an electron and a positron. If the electron beam is polarized, the polarization can be passed on to the new electrons and positrons.