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Post-graduate Lecture Courses: Academic Year 2005-6

Core Course

AC and Pulsed Magnets (timetable)

Tutor : Prof N Marks

Core syllabus
Further topics
Variations in design and construction for AC magnets.
Coil transposition-eddy loss-hysteresis loss.
Properties and choice of magnet steel.
Vector potential and its practical significance.
Inductance- relationship of voltage and magnetic length.
Power supplies.



Kicker magnets-lumped and distributed power supplies.
Septum magnets-active and passive septa.





Slow and fast cycling synchrotrons:
Requirements of a power systems for cycling synchrotrons.
Alternator/rectifier sets and direct connection (slow cycling).
White circuit and modern power converter systems (fast cycling).




Further topics
Measurement Techniques (DC and AC): NMR probes, Hall plate probes, coils (rotating, traversing, etc.), peaking strips.

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