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NMR Setup

NMR Fluxmeter

  1. Depress POWER switch if not illuminated.
  2. After a 1 minute warm up period a horizontal line should appear on the oscilloscope face.
  3. You may have to adjust the VERTICAL POSITION control to find the horizontal line.
  4. Set the HORIZONTAL SWEEP to 60.
  5. Recycle the analyzing magnet if needed. This is done using the RECYCLE button on the analyzing magnet control window.
  6. Set the analyzing magnet power supply to a current slightly lower than the current predicted for this energy.
  7. Set the TUNING VERNIER control to about mid range on its 10 turn control. Rotate counterclockwise until stop then 5 turns clockwise.
  8. Select a frequency about 1% less than the frequency desired for the beam energy.
  9. In the light yellow (Tandem) window type the command nmrgoto 1234.567 where 1234.567 is the frequency calculated in the previous step.
  10. Follow the instructions given in the TANDEM window. You may have to move the NMR TUNING RANGE switch to a new range.
  11. If requested to do so, switch the NMR TUNING RANGE switch to the requested range, then hit ENTER.
  12. The TANDEM window will inform you of how many steps needed to move approximately to the frequency you entered.
  13. When the NMR advances this number of steps it will inform you of the frequency the NMR has moved to at this step position.
  14. If this frequency is not close enough to the desired frequency, repeat the nmrgoto command and it should get closer. The NMR moves to the entered frequency by estimating the number of steps needed to advance from the current frequency and then moving that number of steps. The closer you are to the desired frequency, the closer the end result will be.
  15. Set the FIELD SWEEP control to the optimum position. The optimum setting will be near 15 for the upper three ranges of the fluxmeter and near 5 for the lower three ranges.
  16. set the VERTICAL GAIN control for approximately 1/16-inch of “grass” on the face of the oscilloscope.
  17. Now that the NMR is set to a frequency slightly lower than the desired frequency, we can begin slowly increasing the analyzer magnet control upward toward the current that will show a resonance on the NMR. Typical resonance patterns and control positions can be seen in the Original HVEC NMR Manual figure 1. The resonance will enter the display from the right side and move across the CRT display from right to left. When the resonance is found and centered on the CRT display, the magnet flux (frequency) can be read on the HP counter located above the NMR Fluxmeter. Remember that because of magnet hysteresis and saturation effects, we can only increase the magnet current from this point on. If we decrease the magnet current we will have to recycle the magnet and start over for an accurate NMR flux value.
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