Determination of the Invariant Spin Axis in a COSY model using Bmad

Abstract

The matter-antimatter asymmetry might be understood by investigating the EDM (Electric Dipole Moment) of elementary particles. A permanent EDM of a subatomic particle violates time reversal and parity symmetry at the same time and would be, with the currently achievable experimental accuracy, an indication for further CP violation than established in the SM (Standard Model of Particle Physics). The JEDI-Collaboration (Jülich Electric Dipole moment Investigations) in Jülich has performed a direct EDM measurement for deuterons with the so-called precursor experiments at the storage ring COSY (COoler SYnchrotron) by measuring the orientation of the ISA (Invariant Spin Axis). In order to interpret the measured data and to disentangle a potential EDM signal from systematic effects, spin tracking simulations in an accurate simulation model of COSY are needed. Therefore a model of COSY was implemented using the software library Bmad. Systematic effects were considered by including element misalignments, effective dipole shortening, longitudinal fields and steerer kicks. These effects rotate the ISA in addition to the EDM and have to be analyzed and understood. The most recent spin tracking results as well as the methods to find the ISA are presented in this paper.