Calibration of magnetic probes in the vicinity of a conducting well.
Measuring magnetic fields near the edge of a plasma device can be complicated by the geometric effects of the ports through which such measurements are made. The primary effect is an attenuation of the magnetic field at the probe coil due to the field expanding into the finite sized conducting well of the port. In addition, it is possible to determine the correspondence between the location of a field line as it intersects the probe coil inside the well, with its location far from the perturbation of the well. Here we explore several methods of experimentally characterizing the magnetic fields in the vicinity of the magnetic probe ports of a vacuum vessel, with the aim of improving the interpretation of magnetic measurements needed for experiments in plasma physics.
Howard
S J
SJ
Department of Applied Science, UC Davis, Livermore, California 94550, USA. showard@ucdavis.edu
Horton
R D
RD
Hwang
D Q
DQ
Evans
R W
RW
Brockington
S J
SJ