Field mapping system for cyclotron magnet

Abstract

This paper presents a Hall probe mapping system for measuring a cyclotron magnet, which has been fabricated for the 13 MeV cyclotron at the Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences. Two Hall probes are mounted on a precision mechanical x-y stage and map magnetic field in the Cartesian coordinate system. The mapping system uses the 'flying' mode field mapping method to reduce data-acquisition time. The time required for mapping the whole gap-area of the cyclotron magnet is similar to 60 min. The relative measurement error for the averaged magnetic field along beam orbit is less than 0.02%. The cyclotron magnet has been corrected using field measurement data, and the achieved total phase excursion of the cyclotron after correction is less than +/- 15 degrees, which is within the tolerance of +/- 20 degrees for the total phase excursion. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.