Polarized Target Specifications
Magnet Specifications
Superconducting Magnet
Oxford Instruments
Split pair Helmholtz coil
20 cm bore and a 10 cm split
Along the split the magnet coils formed an opening cone of 100 degrees Along
the split the magnet has an opening angle of plus/minus 25 degrees in the
vertical and plus/minus 17 degrees in the horizontal.
- Maximum Field = 5.1 Tesla (Temp = 4.2 Kelvin)
- Maximum Current = 78.79 Amps
- Current/Field Ratio = 15.449 Amps/Tesla
- Field Homogeneity = 1.42 x 10-4 over 20 mm diameter
- Shimmed Field Homogeneity = 1.22 x 10-4 over 20 mm diameter
- Magnet Persistence: 5 in 108 per hour
- Magnet Inductance: 232 Henries
- Lead Resistance: 0.058 ohms
- Liquid Helium Boil Off: 290 cc/hour @ 30% full
- Liquid Nitrogen Boil Off: 700 cc/hour @ 70% full
Cryostat volumes
LHe 85 liters
LN2 57 liters
In E143
Field 4.872 Tesla
Current 75.33
Shims
Z0 = 0 (NA)
Z1= 0
Z2 = 0.78
Refrigerator Specifications
Cooling Power 1.3 W
Base Temperature 0.94K
(1 watt at 1K requires 7000 m3/hr)
Magnet cryostat volume
LHe: 85 liters
LN2: 57 liters
Pumps
12000 m3/hr Balzers followed by an Alcatel set consisting of two
blowers, a 3000 m3/hr, a 1000 m3/hr. Last stage
consisted of 3 mechanical pumps each of capacity 60 m3/hr.
Helium consumption
7 -9 l/hr with earthquake bracing
Magnet should be less 1 l/hr
(15 SLM (vapor) = 1 l/hr liquid)
Separator ran at ~20 SLM
Refrigerator ran at 15 -20 SLM
Microwave Specifications
Tube
Varian VKT 2438 series CW EIO
Oldest Tube with central frequency 136.5 GHz
20 Watts
Power Supply
- Varian VPW 2889 Series
- Beam Voltage = - 8903
- Anode Voltage = - 5588
- Mechanical tuning range (bellows) about 1 % -> about plus/minus 0.7 GHz
- Electronic tuning range 600 kHz/volt
Frequency Modulation
Function generator ( 1kHz sawtooth) to audio amplifier to the primary of a isolation transformer. Secondary was HV from Varian supply.
100 volts peak to peak generated 80V on HV -> generated plus/minus 250 MHz modulation
Circuit
- F band out of tube
- Transition Piece to D band
- 40 db coupler to 10 db coupler. Coupled power to EIP frequency counter, through went to power thermistor.
- 4 inches of D band
- Switch
- 2 inch piece of D band
- Elbow of D band
- Transition pieces D band to V band rectangular
- Transition from V band rectangular to V band circular
- 1 inch V band circular
- 5 feet of circular waveguide to horn
Gold Plated Waveguide in Insert 70/30 CuproNickel, 70 GHz, Circular Goldplated Waveguide
Good Frequencies at 4.8742 Tesla
NH3+ 136.500 136.430
NH3- 136.900 136.850
ND3+ 136.550 136.470
ND3- 136.830 136.856
Insert Specifications
- NMR Coils: 70/30 CuproNickel, 0.5 mm diameter, 7 ml walls
- LHe: 50 liters
- LN2: 30 liters
- Pumps
12000 m3/hr Balzers followed by an Alcatel set consisting of two blowers,a 3000, a 1000 .
Donal Day, University of Virginia