Requirements and Conceptual Superconducting Magnet Design for a 21 T Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometer
The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL) has identified as one of its next high-field persistent-magnet targets a 21 T superconducting magnet system to be used in a Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance (FT-ICR) Mass Spectrometer. The required fundamental parameters of a 21 T central field and 110 mm warm bore diameter are similar to those already successfully demonstrated in the NHMFL's Ultra-Wide Bore 900 MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance magnet system. However, there are several ancillary requirements of the FT-ICR spectrometer that require technical attention such as fringe field restrictions requiring shielding, length of uniformity zone, magnitude of inhomogeneity, horizontal orientation of the magnet axis and a limitation on the length of the cryostat. This paper describes the overall system requirements, features and status of the superconducting magnet conceptual design proposed for meeting these requirements
900 MHz wide bore NMR spectrometer magnet at NHMFL
The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, in collaboration with Intermagnetics General Corporation, is in the process of fabricating a wide bore 900 MHz NMR magnet. The magnet is in many ways similar in concept to the typical high field NMR spectrometer magnet, employing Nb/sub 3/Sn and NbTi conductors in a set of epoxy impregnated long solenoids plus compensation coils for uniformity. The magnet will operate at a temperature of 1.8 K to produce a field of 21.1 T. The high field and large bore result in large mechanical stress in the coils and large magnetic stored energy. Innovations in the technology are introduced into the design to satisfy the requirements, including the manner of reinforcement of the windings and the active protection system. The design parameters of the magnet are presented. The technological solutions to the requirements of large high field magnets are discussed.
The quantum particle in a box: what we can learn from classical electrodynamics
The problem of a charged particle enclosed in an infinite square potential well is analysed from the point of view of classical theory with the addition of the electromagnetic zero-point radiation field, with the aim to explore the extent to which such an analysis can contribute to enhance our understanding of the quantum behavior. First a proper treatment is made of the freely moving particle subject to the action of the radiation field, involving a frequency cutoff ωc. The jittering motion and the effective structure of the particle are sustained by the permanent action of the zero-point field. As a result, the particle interacts resonantly with the traveling field modes of frequency ωc in its proper frame of reference, which superpose to give rise to a modulated wave accompanying the particle. This is identified with the de Broglie wave, validating the choice of Compton’s frequency for ωc. For the stationary states of particles confined in the potential well, the Lorentz force produced by the accompanying field is shown to lead to discrete values for the mean speed and to an uneven probability distribution that echoes the corresponding quantum distribution. The relevance of the results obtained and the limitations of the classical approach used, are discussed in the context of present-day stochastic electrodynamics.