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2770
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Wed May 18 21:53:31 2022 |
rana | DailyProgress | Emissivity estimation | Megastat Inner Shield for emissivity estimation | I'd recommend drilling a through hole
and using a nut, rather than tapping as I
suggested earlier. The shield is not thick |
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2769
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Wed May 18 09:42:34 2022 |
Radhika | DailyProgress | Emissivity estimation | Megastat Inner Shield for emissivity estimation | [Radhika, JC]
In order to avoid having to order
a new inner shield for emissivity estimation |
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2768
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Fri May 13 09:12:14 2022 |
Radhika | DailyProgress | Emissivity estimation | Plan towards MCMC emissivity estimation | I've now used the following model of
heat transfer between a suspended Si sample
(1), inner shield (2), and aperture |
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2767
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Wed May 11 15:53:06 2022 |
Aidan | Lab Infrastructure | Cleanliness | Ceiling tile replacement - Day 2 | Tiles are replaced.
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2766
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Tue May 10 14:27:26 2022 |
Aidan | Lab Infrastructure | Cleanliness | Ceiling tile replacement - Day 1 | Henry from the Carpentry Shop has started
replacing ceiling tiles. They need to be
cut to fit each location. There was a lot |
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Draft
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Mon May 9 09:45:17 2022 |
Stephen | DailyProgress | 2um Photodiodes | Recovery of IR Labs dewar WIP | [Jordan, Jancarlo, Stephen, Radhika]
The Helium leak testing setup from
the 40m Bake Lab was transported to WB B265B |
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2764
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Thu Apr 28 14:12:20 2022 |
Yehonathan | Update | WOPO | Still figuring out the readout electronics and fixing of some stuff | {Shruti, Yehonathan}
We went to the e-shop to investigate
the PD circuits. Completely confused about |
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2763
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Thu Apr 28 11:39:24 2022 |
JC | Electronics | General | Network | I checked the internet in the TCS/MD Lab
and it is running great and the switch is
runing properly. |
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2762
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Mon Apr 25 11:08:35 2022 |
Yehonathan | Update | WOPO | Still figuring out the readout electronics and fixing of some stuff | {Shruti, Yehonathan}
We realized that the PD amp circuit
only requires a 5V DC supply so we try that. |
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2761
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Fri Apr 22 13:58:09 2022 |
Radhika | DailyProgress | Emissivity estimation | Plan towards MCMC emissivity estimation | I've used the following model of heat
transfer between a suspended Si sample (1)
and the inner shield (2) in Megastat: |
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2760
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Thu Apr 21 10:33:33 2022 |
shruti | Update | WOPO | Still figuring out the readout electronics and fixing of some stuff | [Yehonathan, Shruti]
First we turned on the relevant |
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2759
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Wed Apr 20 00:12:12 2022 |
Yehonathan | Update | WOPO | Still figuring out the readout electronics and fixing of some stuff | {Yehonathan, Shruti}
1. Grabbed 30Hz-3GHz HP spectrum
analyzer from the Cryolab. Installed it in |
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2758
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Wed Apr 20 00:00:39 2022 |
Yehonathan | Lab Infrastructure | General | Preparing for planned power outage | {Yehonathan, Shruti}
We shut down the workstations and
the FBs by doing |
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2757
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Mon Apr 18 12:02:36 2022 |
Radhika | DailyProgress | Emissivity estimation | Plan towards MCMC emissivity estimation | Below are the outlined steps towards building
an MCMC model for estimating the emissivity
of a surface inside Megastat, and determining |
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2756
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Fri Apr 15 13:30:41 2022 |
Radhika | DailyProgress | CDS | CTC100 for Megastat not responding to Telnet | [Radhika, Chris, Ian, Paco]
There are two CTC100s in QIL, so
we will use the following nicknames: |
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2755
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Fri Apr 15 11:44:41 2022 |
Radhika | DailyProgress | Cryo vacuum chamber | Cooldown started, two copper bars; manual logging. | Since the heater seems to not be functional
once again (displaying N/A and no power output),
I proceeded to turn off the cryocooler so |
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2754
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Mon Apr 11 14:50:45 2022 |
rana | DailyProgress | Cryo vacuum chamber | Si wafer emissivity testing | that's good. Can you from these models
estimate what the uncertainty will be on
the emissivity? i.e. by MCMC or otherwise |
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2753
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Fri Apr 8 17:34:10 2022 |
Stephen | DailyProgress | Cryo vacuum chamber | Cooldown started, two copper bars; manual logging. | Restart, without vacuum incursion, of cooldown
from QIL/2749.
Hopefully we pull data this time, via manual |
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2752
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Fri Apr 8 16:25:54 2022 |
Stephen | DailyProgress | 2um Photodiodes | Recovery of IR Labs dewar WIP | Quick log describing effort to recover
leaky IR Labs dewar.
POC Steve Zoltowski - Stevez@irlabs.com |
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2751
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Fri Apr 8 14:28:05 2022 |
Radhika | DailyProgress | Emissivity estimation | Si wafer emissivity testing | I've modeled the cooldown of a 2"
diameter and 4" diameter Si wafer in
Attachments 1 and 2, using the current Megastat |
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2750
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Wed Apr 6 10:31:55 2022 |
rana | DailyProgress | | Rerun of cooldown with indium gaskets in copper bar joints | I think this is a nice debugging find.
Its not very robust to use the workstations
as 24/7 script machines (as we have found |
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2749
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Tue Apr 5 16:47:46 2022 |
Radhika | DailyProgress | | Rerun of cooldown with indium gaskets in copper bar joints | [Radhika, Stephen]
On Thursday 3/31 we opened up with
a goal to diagnose and fix the heater |
9x |
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2748
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Tue Apr 5 16:41:17 2022 |
Radhika | Things to Buy | Purchases | New optical table legs for north table | The 13.5" rigid
legs would cost $1,891. |
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2747
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Tue Apr 5 12:20:09 2022 |
rana | Things to Buy | Purchases | New optical table legs for north table | we don't really need Pneumatic legs.
How much for rigid legs?
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2746
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Tue Apr 5 11:15:13 2022 |
Radhika | Things to Buy | Purchases | New optical table legs for north table | The current QIL optical tables are Thor
Labs PTH503 (discontinued, replaced by PTH603 |
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2745
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Mon Apr 4 17:05:20 2022 |
Radhika | Safety | Cleanliness | Lab flooding | Pictures attached. WS1 and WS2 have been
turned back on, since the replacement for
the ceiling panels will not arrive for another |
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2744
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Fri Apr 1 13:53:02 2022 |
Radhika | Safety | Cleanliness | Lab flooding | Facilities will be returning on Monday
4/4 between 8-9 AM to remove all ceiling
panels above the workstations in B265B (QIL). |
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2743
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Wed Mar 30 16:25:06 2022 |
Koji | Safety | Cleanliness | Lab flooding | Muddy Waters is not new, but if the facility
can fix it we'd take it.
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2742
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Wed Mar 30 10:46:49 2022 |
Radhika | Safety | Cleanliness | Lab flooding | [Radhika, Shruti]
This morning, facilities removed
all the porous ceiling panels that had been |
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2741
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Tue Mar 29 09:13:20 2022 |
Aidan | Safety | Cleanliness | Lab flooding | Facilities placed a blower and dehumidifier
in B265B. I checked the airflow and the air
around the tables is comparitively still. |
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2740
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Mon Mar 28 18:00:43 2022 |
Koji | Safety | Cleanliness | Lab flooding | Flood photo album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/BZAG8DyQzFVTfMNz6
(This link is read-only who has no access
to the account) |
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2739
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Mon Mar 28 16:09:57 2022 |
Aidan | Safety | Cleanliness | Lab flooding | Some photos of affected areas in B265A
and B265B (elog shows some preview photos
- click on PDF for full set). |
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2738
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Mon Mar 28 14:29:22 2022 |
shruti | Safety | Cleanliness | Lab flooding | When I went into QIL today there was a
lot of flooding from water dripping from
the ceiling at several places in the lab. |
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2737
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Sat Mar 26 12:49:18 2022 |
Stephen | DailyProgress | Cryo vacuum chamber | Warmup started, issue with steady state heating | 25 March 2022 (Friday) at 21:00, went to
QIL to start warmup.
- Cryocooler was turned off |
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2736
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Thu Mar 24 16:08:35 2022 |
Radhika | DailyProgress | Cryo vacuum chamber | Megastat cooldown 3/18 - adding indium gaskets to copper bar joints | The data from this cooldown is attached
(labeled 03/19 - UTC time), compared
to the run started on 03/10. In between these |
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2735
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Tue Mar 22 09:19:38 2022 |
shruti | Update | WOPO | Waking up WOPO - back to green path | [Yehonathan, Shruti]
Yesterday we went back to fiddling
with the green path. Soon after opening the |
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2734
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Fri Mar 18 19:34:35 2022 |
Radhika | DailyProgress | Cryo vacuum chamber | Megastat cooldown 3/18 - adding indium gaskets to copper bar joints | Today I opened up Megstat to add indium
in between the copper bar joints, with the
hopes of speeding up cooldown and informing |
8x |
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2733
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Wed Mar 16 12:22:44 2022 |
Yehonathan | Update | WOPO | Waking up WOPO - attempts at readout | {Shruti, Yehonathan}
Yesterday, we measured a bunch
of noises. |
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2732
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Mon Mar 14 14:04:54 2022 |
Radhika | DailyProgress | Cryo vacuum chamber | Insulated outer shield cooldown started 3/10 | The heater was turned on at 2:05PM 3/14,
with a setpoint of 123K.
The cryocooler was turned off at 10:50AM |
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2731
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Thu Mar 10 17:12:01 2022 |
awade | Update | WOPO | Waking up WOPO - attempts at readout | [awade]
Good to see this experiment being
revived. |
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2730
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Thu Mar 10 16:21:11 2022 |
Radhika | DailyProgress | Cryo vacuum chamber | Insulated outer shield cooldown started 3/10 | [Stephen, Radhika]
Our goal for this week's cooldown
was to tape peek sheets fully around the |
9x |
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2729
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Fri Mar 4 13:18:09 2022 |
Radhika | DailyProgress | Cryo vacuum chamber | Double copper bar cooldown rerun started 02/23 | Analysis of 02/24 cooldown data
Attachment 1 shows the cooldown
data for this run. Attachment 2 compares |
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2728
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Fri Mar 4 11:49:45 2022 |
shruti | Update | WOPO | Waking up WOPO - attempts at readout | [Yehonathan, Shruti]
1. Doubling cavity and green beam
Since
we had left the lasers ON with the shutters |
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2727
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Wed Mar 2 14:38:55 2022 |
Yehonathan | Update | WOPO | Waking up WOPO - some more fiddling and a plan | {Shruti, Yehonathan}
We made some a list of some random
questions and plans for the future. We then |
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2726
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Tue Mar 1 15:59:34 2022 |
Radhika | DailyProgress | Cryo vacuum chamber | Double copper bar cooldown rerun started 02/23 | The heater was turned on on Tue, 3/1 at
4pm, with control setpoint 123K.
*UPDATE: After checking a few hours |
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2725
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Fri Feb 25 17:09:53 2022 |
shruti | Update | WOPO | Waking up WOPO - green beam | [shruti, yehonathan]
SHG and 532 nm beam alignment
Yehonathan
brought over 532nm/1064nm laser goggles from |
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2724
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Thu Feb 24 10:44:06 2022 |
Radhika | DailyProgress | Cryo vacuum chamber | Double copper bar cooldown rerun started 02/23 | [Radhika, Aaron]
The goals for this cooldown are:
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2723
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Tue Feb 22 07:53:06 2022 |
Yehonathan | Update | WOPO | Waking up WOPO | {Shruti, Yehonathan}
On Friday, we came down to QIL
to poke around the WOPO setup. The first |
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2722
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Wed Feb 16 11:35:18 2022 |
Stephen | DailyProgress | Cryo vacuum chamber | Doubled Thermal Linkage Capacity run started 11 Feb 2022 | [Stephen, Radhika]
The heater was turned on on Wed,
2/16 at 11:30am, with control setpoint 123K. |
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2721
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Tue Feb 15 16:54:27 2022 |
rana | DailyProgress | Cryo vacuum chamber | Doubled Thermal Linkage Capacity run started 11 Feb 2022 | I've been assuming that the inner shield
can be treated as a point mass, but perhaps
the thinness make a significant delay between |
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