title: Note: A fast pneumatic sample-shuttle with attenuated shocks.
abstract: We describe a home-built pneumatic shuttle suitable for the fast displacement of samples in the vicinity of a highly sensitive atomic magnetometer. The samples are magnetized at 1 T using a Halbach assembly of magnets. The device enables the remote detection of free-induction-decay in ultra-low-field and zero-field nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments, in relaxometric measurements and in other applications involving the displacement of magnetized samples within time intervals as short as a few tens of milliseconds. Other possible applications of fast sample shuttling exist in radiological studies, where samples have to be irradiated and then analyzed in a cold environment.
authors.affiliation: DIISM and CSC, University of Siena, CNISM, Via Roma 56, 53100 Siena, Italy.
authors.forename: Valerio
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Biancalana
authors.affiliation: DSFTA and CSC, University of Siena, Via Roma 56, 53100 Siena, Italy.
authors.forename: Yordanka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Dancheva
authors.affiliation: DSFTA and CSC, University of Siena, Via Roma 56, 53100 Siena, Italy.
authors.forename: Leonardo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Stiaccini