Abstract
A significant challenge for experiments requiring a highly uniform magnetic field concerns the identification and design of a discretized and finite-sized magnetic field coil of minimal size. In this work we compare calculations of the magnetic field uniformities and field gradients for three different standard (i.e., non-optimized) types of coils: cosθ, solenoidal, and spherical coils. For an experiment with a particular requirement on either the field uniformity or the field gradient, we show that the volume required by a spherical coil form which satisfies these requirements can be significantly less than the volumes required by cosθ and solenoidal coil forms.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 30-35 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment |
| Volume | 723 |
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| State | Published - 2013 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported in part by the US Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Physics under Award number DE-FG02-08ER41557. We thank Prof. J.W. Martin for encouraging us to write this paper, and Prof. C.B. Crawford for several valuable discussions. We also thank an anonymous referee for many excellent suggestions which, we believe, significantly improved this paper.
Keywords
- Discretized and finite-sized spherical coil
- Solenoidal coil
- cos θ coil
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
- Instrumentation