THE OXFORD PULSED MAGNETIC-FIELD FACILITY

We give here a description of the newly commissioned 60 tesla or more pulsed field facility constructed over the last three years. It compri ses a 800 kJ 32 mF capacitor bank, a high current switch using either an ignitron or thyristor stack, and a crowbar circuit. The system is d esigned to be flexible enough to cope with a wide variety of coils all owing pulse lengths of up to 100 ms to be produced. The design philoso phy, control, monitoring, data collection, and safety will be discusse d.