Jeff Kolthammer with Robert Brown

Experimental Approach to Magnetic Field Confinement in a Dual-strip System

 There has appeared in literature a theoretical derivation of current conditions that lead to excellent magnetic-field confinement, called supershielding, in open-shield systems. A system consisting of two parallel, flat strips is used for illustration. We propose building a physical two-strip system and simulating the current densities derived for supershielding. The optimum magnetic-field confinement current conditions will be verified experimentally and numerically, and improving shielding beyond the derived conditions will be explored. Such an experiment will include the use of advanced electromagnetic calculations, various instrumentation and field measurements and sophisticated numerical methods.