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Vibrating wire

A mapping technique similar to pulsed wire, used to create a longitudinal map of accelerator magnets. An AC current, at varying frequencies, is fed into a wire stretched through the aperture, and an analysis of the resulting wire motion yields a longitudinal map of the field. 

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