Technique for high axial shielding factor performance of large-scale, thin, open-ended, cylindrical Metglas magnetic shields

S. Malkowski; R. Adhikari; B. Hona; C. Mattie; D. Woods; H. Yan; B. Plaster

doi:10.1063/1.3605665

Technique for high axial shielding factor performance of large-scale, thin, open-ended, cylindrical Metglas magnetic shields

S. Malkowski, R. Adhikari, B. Hona, C. Mattie, D. Woods, H. Yan, B. Plaster

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Abstract

Metglas 2705M is a low-cost commercially available, high-permeability cobalt-based magnetic alloy, provided as a 5.08-cm wide and 20.3-μm thick ribbon foil. We present an optimized construction technique for single-shell, large-scale (human-size), thin, open-ended cylindrical Metglas magnetic shields. The measured dc axial and transverse magnetic shielding factors of our 0.61-m diameter and 1.83-m long shields in the Earths magnetic field were 267 and 1500, for material thicknesses of only 122 μm (i.e., 6 foil layers). The axial shielding performance of our single-shell Metglas magnetic shields, obtained without the use of magnetic shaking techniques, is comparable to the performance of significantly thicker, multiple-shell, open-ended Metglas magnetic shields in comparable-magnitude, low-frequency applied external fields reported previously in the literature.

Original language	English
Article number	075104
Journal	Review of Scientific Instruments
Volume	82
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3605665
State	Published - Jul 2011

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This work was supported in part by the (U.S.) Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Physics under Award No. DE-FG02-08ER41557, and by the University of Kentucky. We thank R. Golub and A. Pérez Galván for valuable discussions. B.P. thanks the Kellogg Radiation Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology for the hospitality during a visit during which time this article was written.

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