The Cryogenics team has received recognition for their excellent work over the past few years; both an award from the IOP, and also a video presentation posted on YouTube.
Contents:
General Updates
The Cryogenics team
Projects
The Cryogenics team continue to repair complex pieces of SE equipment that are essential to ISIS science. The 3D magnet repair (mentioned in the last Newsletter) is proceeding well, with the system now re-assembled and ready for test. Additionally, the 7.5T magnet system suffered a serious fault in a recent experimental cycle which led to it being unable to hold liquid helium, and therefore had to be removed from the experimental programme. This is now repaired (thanks to the tenacious efforts of the team!) and back in operation. We are now considering the future of our magnet suite, and are exploring the creation of a project to keep us at the cutting edge of high-field magnet technology.
We are also continuing to commission Orange Cryostats into the experimental offering as they arrive from the manufacturer. The new cryostats feature more heat exchangers for faster cooling, and an updated controller which was developed in-house by the Electronics User Support Group in collaboration with Cryogenics.
Papers
Members of the Cryogenics team have been involved in two pieces of published work recently.
Both pieces of work on “Neutron Imaging of an Operational Dilution Refrigerator” and “Carbon footprint of the Helium Recovery System at the ISIS Facility” have been reported here previously, but there have been two developments.
Firstly, the work on the ecological benefits of helium recovery has been accepted for publication in Low Temperature Physics. It was initially part of the proceedings of ISSE workshop which occurred in Japan last year.
An article was published on the ISIS website highlighting the paper. The paper itself can be found
here.
Secondly, the widely seen work on dilution refrigeration,
published in Scientific Reports has received some attention of a slightly unusual kind. Lego Youtuber ‘Hamster Productions’ came to ISIS to produce an informative and educational video about the work, using both live interview footage with the Cryogenics team, but also his trademark Lego stop-motion. Check it out by clicking here, or on the picture below:
Thumbnail for Hamster Productions' Youtube video about the neutron images taken in cryostat.
Staff
The Cryogenics team are excited to welcome Skip Doran into the organisation! Skip has a background in Mechanical Engineering and has also spent time at the Dog’s Trust. She joins us as part of Helium Recovery, and is keen to further our capability to recycle this irreplaceable resource. Please feel free to say ‘hello!’ if you see her.
In other Staff news, the Cryogenics team attended a “Celebration of Physics” in Bristol at the end of June. This event was organised by the Institute of Physics, with the Cryogenics team being invited to celebrate their win of the 2021 IOP Technician Team Award (trophy shown below). This was a great honour for the team, and they would like to express their deep gratitude to all those who have supported them in their endeavours. The event included a nice reception and the chance to look at Concorde in Aerospace Bristol.
Image: IOP Award trophy for Cryogenics Team: 'Technician Team Award'.
For further information on these topics, or any other enquiries about Cryogenics at ISIS, please
contact the Cryogenics Team and visit the Cryogenics Team
website.
