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The magnet

The magnet is the UA1 dipole currently being used in NOMAD (Fig. 10). It has an inner field volume of . It provides a horizontal field of up to 0.7 T in a direction perpendicular to the neutrino beam. The magnet consists of mirror-image halves (the plane of symmetry is a vertical plane containing the beam direction) which open on a system of rails to give access to the detector. Each half consists of 8 iron C's, providing the return path for the magnetic field, and one water cooled aluminium coil. Each C is 87.5 cm long along the beam and successive C's are separated from each other by 80 mm gaps.

 
Figure:   The UA1 magnet with the detector elements inserted for this experiment.