The polarized atomic-beam target for the EDDA experiment and the time-reversal invariance test at COSY

For the the EDDA experiment, which was set up to measure the (p) over right arrow-(p) over right arrow excitation function during the acceleration ramp of the cooler synchrotron COSY at Julich, a polarized atomic-beam target was designed regarding the restrictions imposed by the geometry of the EDDA detector. Later, when the time-reversal invariance experiment is to be performed, the EDDA detector will serve as efficient internal polarimeter and the source has to deliver tensor polarized deuterons. The modular design of this polarized atomic-beam target that allows to meet these conditions will be discussed in comparison to other existing polarized atomic-beam targets.