MEFISTO, together with the companion instrument WPT, are planning the first-ever in situ measurements of the electric field in the magnetosphere of planet Mercury. The instruments have been selected by JAXA for inclusion in the BepiColombo/MMO payload, as part of the Plasma Wave Investigation coordinated by Kyoto University. The magnetosphere of Mercury was discovered by Mariner 10 in 1974 and ...

An electrometer is an electrical instrument for measuring electric charge or electrical potential difference. There are many different types, ranging from historical hand-made mechanical instruments to high-precision electronic devices. Modern electrometers based on vacuum tube or solid state technology can be used to make voltage and charge measurements with very low leakage currents, down to ...

According to the operating specifications of existing electric field measuring instruments, measuring technicians must be located far from the instruments to eliminate the influence of the human body occupancy on a spatial electric field. Nevertheless, in order to develop a portable safety protection instrument with an effective electric field warning function for working staff in a high-voltag...

A new instrument capable of measuring aerosol size distribution with high time and size resolution, and high signal-to-noise ratio is described. The instrument, referred to as Fast Integrated Mobility Spectrometer (FIMS), separates charged particles based on their electrical mobility into different trajectories in a uniform electric field. The particles are then grown into super-micrometer drop...

We propose to determine the proton electric form-factor G E at high Q2 by measuring the transverse asymmetry Ax in the 3 ~ He(~e, e′p)d reaction. We present a doublepolarization approach distinct both from a cross-section measurement and recoil polarimetry. As the key instrument we propose to use the two-body breakup of polarized 3He acting as an effective polarized proton target.