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Fri Nov 12 14:31:38 2021, Stephen, Radhika, DailyProgress, Cryo vacuum chamber, Radiative Cooling of Si Mass, with better shield emissivity    
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Fri Nov 19 14:01:40 2021, Stephen, Radhika, DailyProgress, Cryo vacuum chamber, Radiative Cooling of Si Mass, with better shield emissivity
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Fri Dec 10 15:58:57 2021, Stephen, DailyProgress, Cryo vacuum chamber, Radiative Cooling of Si Mass, with worse inner shield inner surface emissivity
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Thu Dec 16 15:54:44 2021, Stephen, Radhika, DailyProgress, Cryo vacuum chamber, Radiative Cooling of Si Mass, with worse inner shield inner surface emissivity - CTC100 temperature control success 
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Tue Dec 21 15:33:39 2021, Stephen, DailyProgress, Cryo vacuum chamber, Radiative Cooling of Si Mass, with worse inner shield inner surface emissivity - next run repeating
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Wed Dec 31 15:59:59 1969, Stephen, DailyProgress, Cryo vacuum chamber, Radiative Cooling of Si Mass, with worse inner shield inner surface emissivity - retry run was successful  
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Cryo vacuum chamber |
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Radiative Cooling of Si Mass, with worse inner shield inner surface emissivity - next run repeating |
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I opened the QIL cryostat today for a health check and visual inspection before the next run. Because I saw a couple of interesting issues, I decided to redo the same run with more attention to detail on the closeout. I'm worried the outer shield may have been linked to the inner shield and baseplate enough to affect comparability with the prior run.
issues with this run, requiring redo:
- RTD wire for outer shield was clamped under lid of inner shield - this might have created a conductive link between the inner shield and the outer shield
- outer shield was more wobbly than usual, and could have possibly been off of the three spacers - this might have created a conductive link between the outer shield and the baseplate
run details:
- pumping started at 3:45 pm
- turbo started with 15 minute delay at 20 torr
- cryocooler started at 4:15 pm with active ion gauge pressure at 3 e-4 torr.
And since I didn't get to implement any of the intended next runs, here are some notes on other future runs of interest:
- Si mass covered with Al foil (matte side facing out) - interested in making the emissivity of the test mass equal to that of the inner shield in the new config, for modeling.
- (of course, this emissivity equivalence would be an approximation, as there is a large area of the test mass which is bare silicon)
- outer shield clamped/resting on baseplate - this is predicted by Koji to be the most efficient cooling configuration.
- shielding attached to structure holding Si mass (electropolished aluminum, aquadag aluminum, bare aluminum surfaces are all available.
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