Field Measurements of Magnets for Modern SR Sources and FEL
Magnets for modern accelerators and storage rings may have a rather complex field distribution and strict quality requirements. The Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (Novosibirsk, Russia) is a well-known producer of magnets for various accelerator projects worldwide. This paper describes our magnet measurement facility with examples of NSLS-II booster magnets, small-aperture X-FEL quadrupoles, and PETRA-III dipoles. NSLS-II booster dipoles have quadrupole and sextupole components with a rather high field quality of 1 · 10-3 in the good field region of ±2 cm, providing booster operation at energy from 170 MeV to 3.15 GeV with a 2-Hz repetition rate. We designed a special bench with a ceramic rotation coil to measure X-FEL quadrupoles. The equipment provided measurements of the magnetic axis with accuracy better than 5 μm. We used the system of three temperature-stabilized Hall sensor arrays distributed vertically to obtain a three-dimensional field map from a single measurement of PETRA-III dipole magnets.
Analysis of the Impact of Chinese Traditional Ceramic Sculpture on Modern Sculpture
In the evolution of civilization for thousands of years, ceramic sculpture has been existing and developing in an artistic form with nationalization. Modern ceramic sculpture is the product of modern social civilization. Its development can not be separated from modern advanced science and technology, the improvement of material living standards, and the higher requirements of people for aesthetic taste. With the continuous progress and development of ancient Chinese sculpture art, ceramic sculpture has produced remarkable achievements and positive far-reaching impact. Due to the language and morphological characteristics of modern ceramic sculpture, modern ceramic sculpture has incomparable artistic expression and touching artistic charm, which is a characteristic other arts do not have. Ceramic workers can do their best to explore and play, so that their ceramic sculpture works show unique pursuit, endow the works with vitality and achieve a new perfection.
Mass Loss History of Evolved Stars
We provide high-resolution maps of the circumstellar dust shells of several dozen Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars using data from the Spitzer space telescope Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS) imaged at 70μm. AGB stars are the major contributors of chemical elements such as carbon, oxygen and silicon, which are essential to the existence of life in the universe, through mass loss processes that take place at the surface of the star. We probe the spatial distribution of cold (∼40 K) dust grains in order to trace the history of mass loss from the observed radial density variation in these shells. Our images illustrate that different morphologies may evolve because AGB stars can already interact with the interstellar medium (ISM) that surrounds them even at these early stages of the AGB mass loss history. Relative motion of the star as well as the ISM with respect to the local environment may be of particular importance for shell structure evolution.