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GOLIATH [2 records]

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Record 1 2005-10-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Instruments
  • Physics
CONT

Together with the large aperture magnet Goliath two tracking arms allow the spectrometry of charged particles. In addition two time-of-flight walls measure the velocity to provide the mass of each particle. Goliath is centred 3.28m downstream of the target with a gap size of 1.60m. It is a 1.6 Tm dipole magnet bending the positively charged particles to the second tracking arm side, which is defined as the positive x-axis.

CONT

The magnet Goliath, which has been modified for the WA93 experiment by increasing the gap size from 1200mm to 1600mm and by special exit pillars to optimize the acceptance of the spectrometer, will be used without further modifications.

Key term(s)
  • Goliath magnet

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments scientifiques
  • Physique
CONT

Les utilisateurs de NA57 nous ont signalés que les variations rapides de courant dans l'aimant GOLIATH pouvaient être dangereuses pour leurs détecteurs.

Spanish

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Record 2 1987-11-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Gantry and Travelling Cranes
  • Cranes (Construction Sites)
DEF

A powerful traveling crane mounted on a movable gantry of large span.

CONT

Where there is no elevated rails to carry the truss, the overhead crane may stand on tall legs of its own; it is then called a "goliath" crane ...

OBS

goliath crane: standardized by the British Standards Institution.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ponts roulants et portiques (Levage)
  • Grues (Chantiers)
CONT

Dans les chantiers de travaux maritimes où on construit des «blocs artificiels» en béton, on emploie des grues montées sur des «portiques à grande portée» qui enjambent plusieurs files de blocs (fig. 97). [...] Le portique est mobile [...]

Spanish

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