[time-nuts] Old C tube behaviors thought

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Thu Nov 3 18:23:59 UTC 2016


--------
In message <CAD2JfAiLhEu0rMod23j=X8ZNCLbQccKmEtfy54jenAjjfZeyQQ at mail.gmail.com>
, paul swed writes:

>Or is it even possible for a strong magnet to get through the shields as is
>and influence the state selectors????? 

No.

Because it is not the strength of the magnetic field (as in TWT's)
but the gradient of the magnetic field which is important.

It is btw, one of the points where it must have become a LOT easier
to build a beamstandard at home, in this case thanks to Nb magnets.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk at FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.



More information about the Time-nuts_lists.febo.com mailing list