In 1914, Blondel [1] performed an experiment in which a solenoidal coil was coaxial with a region of static magnetic field, such that the magnetic field on the conductor of the coil was negligible. The conductor of the coil T (D in the right figure) could be wound onto an auxiliary drum T ′ (D1), such that the magnetic flux through the coil T (D) was time dependent. What was the reading of the ...

Efficient production of short-lived radioactive isotopes in inverse reaction kinematics is an important technique for various applications. It is particularly interesting when the isotope of interest is only a few nucleons away from a stable isotope. In this article production via charge exchange and stripping reactions in combination with a magnetic separator is explored. The relation between ...

We test and compare a number of existing models predicting the location of magnetic reconnection at Earth’s dayside magnetopause for various solar wind conditions. We employ robust image processing techniques to determine the locations where each model predicts reconnection to occur. The predictions are then compared to the magnetic separators, the magnetic field lines separating different magn...

Optimization of the acid leaching process for Mongolian apatite-based ore containing rare-earth elements (REEs) was studied. The ore contained approximately 10% of REEs as total rare earth oxides, and the major impurities were Ca (33% as CaO) and Fe (23% as Fe2O3). Fe bearing minerals could be removed by passing the sample through a wet high-intensity magnetic separator before leaching. After m...

Liquid may give strong cohesion properties to a granular medium, and confer a solidlike behavior. We study the erosion of a fixed circular aggregate of wet granular matter subjected to a flow of dry grains inside a half-filled rotating drum. During the rotation, the dry grains flow around the fixed obstacle. We show that its diameter decreases linearly with time for low liquid content, as wet g...

The ion-optical characteristics of the separator should meet the requirements of the antiproton beam, the parameters of which are given in Table 1. The magnetic bending power is 13 Tm; the transverse acceptance is 240 mm mrad; the momentum acceptance is 6 %. These parameters require magnets with large aperture, especially in the horizontal plane (up to 400 mm). The ion optics of the antiproton ...

The TRIμP facility, under construction at KVI, requires the production and separation of short-lived and rare isotopes. Direct reactions, fragmentation and fusionevaporation reactions in normal and inverse kinematics are foreseen to produce nuclides of interest with a variety of heavy-ion beams from the superconducting cyclotron AGOR. For this purpose, we have designed, constructed and commissi...