Re: Fields and currents

From: Ian Bearden (bearden@nbi.dk)
Date: Mon May 19 2003 - 07:12:26 EDT

  • Next message: Claus O. E. Jorgensen: "Re: Fields and currents"
    Hi Ramiro,
    I have been looking for the last measurements, but I guess in the wrong 
    place.  I looked here:
    http://www.sdcc.bnl.gov/brahms/private/detectors.html
    under "magnets" in FS.  Where can we find the translation?
    Cheers,
    Ian
    On mandag, maj 12, 2003, at 19:34 Europe/Copenhagen, Ramiro Debbe wrote:
    
    > If you are using the permanent Hall probe readouts without any further 
    > change you will not have the correct field value.
    > The Hall probes are located right on the magnet poles and most on the 
    > time two to three gap heights into the magnet gap.
    > At those locations they are sensing the saturation in the iron. That 
    > must be most of the deviation one can see in the plots.
    > The value of By at high field deviates from a linear function of the 
    > current because of saturation and hopefully that is well described by 
    > the parametrisation  in BRAT.
    >
    > The last measurements I did for all our magnets should give you the 
    > translation between permanent Hall probe readings and the value of the 
    > field in the middle of the gaps. For D4 I have two sets of 
    > measurements, one with the Hall probe in the old
    > position, and a second one where the Hall probe was moved deeper into 
    > the magnet gap. (this last settings can be used for the dA and this 
    > last pp run and all future runs)
    >
    > Ramiro
    >
    >
    > On Monday, May 12, 2003, at 12:21 PM, Claus O. E. Jorgensen wrote:
    >
    >>
    >> Hi,
    >>
    >> I'm currently looking at the high field Au+Au runs and I'm having some
    >> trouble at the edges of the acceptance - the data is not right on the
    >> MC so I started looking at the magnetic field. Is it correct that we
    >> still use the (2nd order) parametrization of the field?
    >>
    >> I've compared the field I get from BRAT and what has been measured 
    >> (By)
    >> with the Hall probe and there is a small discrepancy which I guess 
    >> would
    >> effect the high field data the most. Have a look:
    >>
    >> www.nbi.dk/~ekman/fieldVsCurrent.gif
    >>
    >> Putting the numbers directly in BrMagnetVolume would be very easy, 
    >> but I
    >> guess that's not good enough. Do we want to store this information in 
    >> the
    >> DB? And what does it take? I think it's pretty important if we want to
    >> make a good analysis of the high field data...
    >>
    >> Cheers,
    >>
    >> Claus
    >>
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