Critical Stoermer conditions in quadrupole and double ring-current fields.
Critical Stormer pass points for quadrupole field and double-ring-current field with parallel or antiparallel dipole moments
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Magnetic Shield Design Modeling and Validation for SWOT Spacecraft Ka-Band Extended Interaction Klystron
Two Extended Interaction Klystrons (EIKs) containing strong permanent magnets were modeled magnetically in a representative spacecraft geometry using commercial finite element modeling techniques and were validated against measurements made at varying distances. Initial modeling results for the 63 A-m2 (amperes per square meter) dipole moment magnets showed that magnetic shields would be necessary in order to meet magnetic field requirements for the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) spacecraft, which contains components that are susceptible to external DC (Direct Current) magnetic fields. JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and the EIK vendor proposed cold rolled steel and mu-metal as potential shield materials along with proposed thicknesses of 0.5 millimeters and 1.5 millimeters. Magnetic shields made from each of these materials were designed and modeled in software, taking high-field saturation into account. Prototype magnetic shields with these parameters were then built, measured with an existing EIK, and compared against modeling results. For single-axis field measurements along the dipole axis, modeling results were within 7 gauss of the measured values at 10 centimeters from the magnet, and converged to less than 1.5 gauss at distances greater than 14 centimeters from the magnet. Three-axis field measurements at locations of interest showed that model correlation improved to within 4 gauss at 11 centimeters and 2 gauss for distances ranging between 15 centimeters and 36 centimeters.
Gonzales, Edward↗
The Effects of Localized Thermal Pressure on Equilibrium Magnetic Fields and Particle Drifts in The Inner Magnetosphere
Localized injections of hot anisotropic plasma sheet particles into the inner magnetosphere can significantly deform the quiet time dipole–like magnetic field and thus disturb electron and ion's drift paths and scattering rates. Although many details of magnetic field deformation can be inferred from empirical models, roles of different characteristics of injected plasma on the structure of such deformation require further investigation. In this study, we use the 2–D axisymmetric equilibrium model to calculate self–consistent magnetic field in force balance with a Gaussian thermal pressure distribution characterized by four input parameters: the ratio between plasma pressure and magnetic pressure ( β ) at the pressure peak β 0 , the radial location of the pressure peak L 0 , the width of the half peak pressure σ 0 , and the equatorial pressure anisotropy A e . Using the modeled magnetic field, we find that the magnetic field perturbation increases with increasing β 0 and decreasing σ 0 while the magnetic curvature perturbation increases with increasing A e , β 0 , and σ 0 and decreasing L 0 . For energetic particles the change of magnetic gradient drift motion is much greater than that of curvature drift motion. The magnetic dip structure formation requires a critical β value that increases with increasing σ 0 and decreasing L 0 . Despite the unavailability of observations in the existing literatures to check the condition of magnetic dip formation, such condition will be checked against observations as a future study. Lastly, we also use 3–D ring current–atmosphere interactions model with self–consistent magnetic field model to illustrate the effect of azimuthal pressure distribution, which is relevant to asymmetric ring current.
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Pulsed-focusing recirculating linacs for muon acceleration
Since the muon has a short lifetime, fast acceleration is essential for high-energy applications such as muon colliders, Higgs factories, or neutrino factories. The best one can do is to make a linear accelerator with the highest possible accelerating gradient to make the accelerating time as short as possible. However, the cost of such a single linear accelerator is prohibitively large due to expensive power sources, cavities, tunnels, and related infrastructure. As was demonstrated in the Thomas Jefferson Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF), an elegant solution to reduce cost is to use magnetic return arcs to recirculate the beam through the accelerating RF cavities many times, where they gain energy on each pass. In such a Recirculating Linear Accelerator (RLA), the magnetic focusing strength diminishes as the beam energy increases in a conventional linac that has constant strength quadrupoles. After some number of passes the focusing strength is insufficient to keep the beam from going unstable and being lost. In this project, the use of fast pulsed quadrupoles in the linac sections was considered for stronger focusing as a function of time to allow more successive passes of a muon beam in a recirculating linear accelerator. In one simulation, it was shown that the number of passes could be increased from 8 to 12 using pulsed magnet designs that have been developed and tested. This could reduce the cost of linac sections of a muon RLA by 8/12, where more improvement is still possible. The expense of a greater number of passes and corresponding number of return arcs was also addressed in this project by exploring the use of ramped or FFAG-style magnets in the return arcs. A better solution, invented in this project, is to use combined-function dipole-quadrupole magnets to simultaneously transport two beams of different energies through one magnet string to reduce costs of return arcs by almost a factor of two. A patent application was filed for this invention and a detailed report published in Physical Review Special Topics. A scaled model using an electron beam was developed and proposed to test the concept of a dog bone RLA with combined-function return arcs. The efforts supported by this grant were reported in a series of contributions to particle accelerator conferences that are reproduced in the appendices and summarized in the body of this report.
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RHIC 10 Hz global orbit feedback system
Vibrations of the cryogenic triplet magnets at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) are suspected to be causing the horizontal beam perturbations observed at frequencies around 10 Hz. Several solutions to counteract the effect have been considered in the past, including a local beam feedback system at each of the two experimental areas, reinforcing the magnet base support assembly, and a mechanical servo feedback system. However, the local feedback system was insufficient because perturbation amplitudes outside the experimental areas were still problematic, and the mechanical solutions are very expensive. A global 10 Hz orbit feedback system consisting of 36 beam position monitors (BPMs) and 12 small dedicated dipole corrector magnets in each of the two 3.8 km circumference counter-rotating rings has been developed and commissioned in February 2011. A description of the system architecture and results with beam will be discussed.
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Low-frequency resonance increase in the resistance of a microcontact between ferromagnetic and nonmagnetic metals
The magnetic dynamics of a mesoscopic three-dimensional magnet has been studied by measuring the resistance of a nanodimensional (point) microcontact between paramagnetic and ferromagnetic metals. The resistance was measured by a modulation technique under conditions where a significant role was played by dipole-dipole interaction, magnetic field, and dissipation. It was found that the resistance of the microcontact exhibits resonance growth at low frequencies ({approx}10{sup 3} s{sup -1}). The properties of resonances are described by a model of microcontact gyromagnetic oscillations (MCGMOs) based on mutual transformation of spin and mechanical angular momentum. Experimental techniques, basic properties, and the MCGMO model are described. The passage of an electric current through the interface between paramagnetic and ferromagnetic metals leads to nonequilibrium magnetization localized at the interface. A high current density in the microcontact determines the strong excitation of magnetization (high density of magnons) at which the interaction between magnons becomes significant. In a uniaxial magnet, the attraction of magnons leads to the formation of a spatially localized configuration of gapless long-wavelength magnons (magnetic soliton). At a given excitation of magnetization, the vector structure of a magnetic soliton possesses a minimum free energy (configuration energy minimum). The configuration energy minimum of a magnetic soliton is responsible for the radical increase in the soliton spin relaxation time, which determines the fundamental possibility of exciting stationary low-frequency MCGMOs.
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Update on the MEIC electron collider ring design
The electron collider ring of the Medium-energy Electron-Ion Collider (MEIC) at Jefferson Lab is designed to accumulate and store a high-current polarized electron beam for collisions with an ion beam. We consider a design of the electron collider ring based on reusing PEPII components, such as magnets, power supplies, vacuum system, etc. This has the potential to significantly reduce the cost and engineering effort needed to bring the project to fruition. This paper reports on an electron ring optics design considering the balance of PEP-II hardware parameters (such as dipole sagitta, magnet field strengths and acceptable synchrotron radiation power) and electron beam quality in terms of equilibrium emittances.
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Update on the MEIC electron collider ring design
The electron collider ring of the Medium-energy Electron-Ion Collider (MEIC) at Jefferson Lab is designed to accumulate and store a high-current polarized electron beam for collisions with an ion beam. We consider a design of the electron collider ring based on reusing PEP-II components, such as magnets, power supplies, vacuum system, etc. This has the potential to significantly reduce the cost and engineering effort needed to bring the project to fruition. This paper reports on an electron ring optics design considering the balance of PEP-II hardware parameters (such as dipole sagitta, magnet field strengths and acceptable synchrotron radiation power) and electron beam quality in terms of equilibrium emittances.
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Emergent chirality in the electric polarization texture of titanate superlattices
Significance Many natural structures exhibit chirality that is essential to their functional interactions, yet the chiral electronic structures found in condensed matter systems have been primarily limited to magnetic materials. Notably, the electric dipole equivalent of magnetic skyrmions has remained conspicuously elusive. However, recent theoretical predictions and experimental observations of the continuous rotation of electric polarization in titanate superlattices suggests that such complex oxide nanocomposites are ideal candidates for realizing chiral electric dipole configurations. Here we present the results from superlattices of PbTiO 3 and SrTiO 3 using a combination of resonant soft X-ray diffraction and second-principles simulations. We observe chiral arrays of polar line defects, spontaneously formed by the complex interactions in these artificial superlattices constructed from two nonchiral lattices.
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Chemical pressure effects on structural, dielectric and magnetic properties of solid solutions Mn{sub 3−x}Co{sub x}TeO{sub 6}
Highlights: • Mn{sub 3}TeO{sub 6} and Co{sub 3}TeO{sub 6} are antiferromagnets with corundum related structures. • The structural and magnetic properties of Mn{sub 3−x}Co{sub x}TeO{sub 6} ceramics were investigated. • All compounds adopt the trigonal structure of Mn{sub 3}TeO{sub 6} up to at least x = 2.4. • The antiferromagnetic transition temperature monotonously increases with x. • NPD data evidences the magnetic structure of the Mn{sub 3−x}Co{sub x}TeO{sub 6} ceramics. - Abstract: The effects of Co{sup 2+} doping on the structural, magnetic and dielectric properties of the multiferroic frustrated antiferromagnet Mn{sub 3}TeO{sub 6} have been investigated. Ceramic samples of the solid solution series Mn{sub 3−x}Co{sub x}TeO{sub 6} were prepared by a solid-state reaction route. X-ray and neutron powder diffraction and electron microscopy techniques were combined with calorimetric, dielectric and magnetic measurements to investigate the dependence of the crystal structure and physical properties on temperature and composition. It is shown that the compounds with x ≤ 2.4 adopt the trigonal corundum-related structure of pure Mn{sub 3}TeO{sub 6} (space group R3{sup ¯}) in the temperature range 5–295 K and that the lattice parameters a and c and the unit-cell volume V decrease linearly with increasing Co{sup 2+} concentration. The low-temperature magnetic susceptibility and heat capacity data evidence the antiferromagnetic ordering of all samples. The Neel temperature linearly increases with Co{sup 2+} concentration x. Curie–Weiss fits of the high temperature susceptibility indicate that the magnetic frustration decreases with x. The derived magnetic structure of Mn{sub 3}TeO{sub 6} can be described as an incommensurately modulated magnetic spin state with k = [0, 0, k{sub z}] and an elliptical spin-spiral order of spins within the chains of MnO{sub 6} octahedra. With increasing Co{sup 2+} concentration the propagation vector k{sub z} changes from 0.453 (x = 0) to 0.516 (x = 2.4). The magnetic anisotropy changes as well, leading to a reorientation of the spiral-basal plane. A possible coexistence of long-range order of electrical dipoles and magnetic moments in Mn{sub 3−x}Co{sub x}TeO{sub 6} is discussed.
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Dynamic stabilization of the magnetic field surrounding the neutron electric dipole moment spectrometer at the Paul Scherrer Institute
The Surrounding Field Compensation (SFC) system described in this work is installed around the four-layer Mu-metal magnetic shield of the neutron electric dipole moment spectrometer located at the Paul Scherrer Institute. The SFC system reduces the DC component of the external magnetic field by a factor of about 20. Within a control volume of approximately 2.5 m × 2.5 m × 3 m, disturbances of the magnetic field are attenuated by factors of 5–50 at a bandwidth from 10{sup −3} Hz up to 0.5 Hz, which corresponds to integration times longer than several hundreds of seconds and represent the important timescale for the neutron electric dipole moment measurement. These shielding factors apply to random environmental noise from arbitrary sources. This is achieved via a proportional-integral feedback stabilization system that includes a regularized pseudoinverse matrix of proportionality factors which correlates magnetic field changes at all sensor positions to current changes in the SFC coils.
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Quench-Back Management for Fast Decaying Currents in SHMS Superconducting Magnets at Jefferson Lab
The Super High Momentum Spectrometer (SHMS) of Hall C, part of the 12-GeV upgrade at Jefferson Lab, was successfully commissioned in 2017. Early operation demonstrated that fast current dumps decays of the SHMS Q2/Q3 and dipole superconducting magnets triggered quenches, causing some level of operational difficulty. Tests and detailed assessments suggest that nonquench induced fast current decay could result in substantial ac loss in the conductor and subsequently trigger a quench-back effect. The OPERA/ELECTRA software package was used to calculate the amount of heat deposited in the copper stabilizer from a fast current decay. The resistances of external energy dump resistors were lowered to slow the fast dumping of the magnet's current to reduce or eliminate the quench-back effect. A worst-case adiabatic quench scenario was analyzed, assuming no external dump resistor and no liquid helium surrounding the coil, to ensure the safety of the magnets. The stress levels in the coil imposed by winding, collaring preload, Lorentz force, and temperature gradient during a quench were also examined. The Tsai-Wu material failure criterion was used to determine the acceptable combined stress level. Linear orthotropic analysis of the coil indicates that the magnets can be operated safely with appropriately sized dump resistors. Fast dump tests with the modified dump resistors have been planned to verify the performance and suitability.
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High-Field Combined-Function Magnets for a 1.5 x 1.5 TeV Muon Collider Storage Ring
A new storage ring lattice based on combined function high-field magnets and conceptual designs of superconducting magnets with dipole and quadrupole coils for a muon collider with a c.o.m. energy of 3 TeV and an average luminosity of 4x10^{34 } cm^{-2} s^{-1} are presented. Magnets are designed to provide the required focusing field gradient and bending field in the aperture with the appropriate operation margin. Magnets have large apertures to provide an adequate space for internal absorbers, vacuum insulation, beam pipe, and helium channel. Coil cross-sections were optimized to achieve the best possible field quality in the magnet aperture occupied with beams. Magnet parameters are reported and compared with the requirements. Energy depositi on calculations with the MARS code have allowed to optimize parameters of inner absorbers and collimators in interconnect regions, thus reducing peak power density and dynamic loads to the tolerable levels.
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A method for the measurement of extremely feeble torques on massive bodies.
Single-axis meter design and development for measuring feeble torques on massive bodies, discussing calibration, testing results, evaluation of static dipole moments and spacecraft spin-rate control moments
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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TWO FORMATION SCENARIOS OF BURSTY RADIO EMISSION FROM ULTRACOOL DWARFS
Recently, a number of ultracool dwarfs have been found to produce periodic radio bursts with high brightness temperature and polarization degree; the emission properties are similar to the auroral radio emissions of the magnetized planets of the solar system. We simulate the dynamic spectra of radio emission from ultracool dwarfs. The emission is assumed to be generated due to the electron-cyclotron maser instability. We consider two source models: the emission caused by interaction with a satellite and the emission from a narrow sector of active longitudes; the stellar magnetic field is modeled by a tilted dipole. We have found that for the dwarf TVLM 513-46546, the model of the satellite-induced emission is inconsistent with observations. On the other hand, the model of emission from an active sector is able to reproduce qualitatively the main features of the radio light curves of this dwarf; the magnetic dipole seems to be highly tilted (by about 60 Degree-Sign ) with respect to the rotation axis.
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Development of Design for the STS Extraction Magnet System
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory STS Project will enhance the Spallation Neutron Source by adding a new neutron source. The upgrade includes a 30% increase in beam energy and a 50% boost in beam current, doubling the accelerator's power capability to 2.8 MW. The Ring-to-Second-Target Beam Transport (RTST) system is vital in directing high-energy proton beams to the new second target station. New magnets have to fit into a restricted space within the existing beamline to add the new extraction line. New, fast kicker magnets (Pulsed Dipole), a focusing quad with an aperture for both beamlines (Large Quad) and the replacement of existing 21Q40 Quads with 'Narrow Quads' having identical fields as the existing design are Fermilab's responsibility. The design of these magnets poses unique challenges, as in addition to the high requirements on the quality of magnetic fields, they are subject to major restrictions related to their dimensions.
Chernenok, V. [Fermilab] (ORCID:0009000778148215)↗
Global MHD Simulation of Mesoscale Structures at the Magnetospheric Boundary
We have continued our modeling of the solar wind/magnetosphere interaction for steady solar Wind conditions by carrying out a series of 3 D global magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) simulations using a set of predetermined solar wind parameters as input to the code. With the results from the simulations that we ran last year for two other dipole tilts (0 and 35 deg), we have 36 data sets to study the dynamics of mesoscale structures at the magnetospheric boundary. We have started the analysis of these runs to investigate geometrical properties and the topology of the magnetic and electric fields for the different solar wind regimes and orientations considered. Preliminary results indicate that merging sites are consistent with patterns proposed for antiparallel merging at the dayside magnetopause. Another goal of this investigation is to establish the displacement of the cusp region as a function of the solar wind dynamic pressure, IMF direction and magnetic field dipole tilt. One of the difficulties of that study is to locate precisely the cusp in the simulation results. We have used several case studies to establish a series of criteria in to permit a routine identification of that location. We need now to process the rest of the simulation results using these criteria to obtain statistical results.
Berchem, Jean↗
Saturn's magnetic field and magnetosphere
Results of Pioneer Saturn vector helium magnetometer measurements of the magnetic field and magnetosphere of Saturn are reported. The detection of a bow shock at 23.7 Saturn radii and the magnetosphere crossing at 17.4 Saturn radii suggest an equatorial surface field of 0.3 gauss, which is similar to that of the earth, and the polarity of the field is observed to be similar to that of Jupiter and opposite to the earth's. An increase of magnetic field strength with decreasing radius indicates the dipole nature of the magnetic field, which modified by the compression of the magnetosphere by the solar wind and the presence of a ring current in the middle magnetosphere. Inversions of the field measurements to obtain equivalent dipole source vectors reveal that the tilt angle between the magnetic dipole and the rotation axis is less than 1 deg, and spherical harmonic analysis of the data indicates that the magnetic field is more uniform than those of the earth and Jupiter, consistent with a small Saturn core. An apparent hydromagnetic wake associated with Titan was also observed.
Smith, E. J.↗