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REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS
Volume 84, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4807750
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, Japan [KAKENHI 23684017, 21111003]
- Center for the Promotion of Integrated Sciences (CPIS) of SOKENDAI
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [21111002, 21111003, 23684017] Funding Source: KAKEN
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We developed a system that continuously maintains a cryocooler for long periods on a rotating table. A cryostat that holds the cryocooler is set on the table. A compressor is located on the ground and supplies high-purity (>99.999%) and high-pressure (1.7 MPa) helium gas and electricity to the cryocooler. The operation of the cryocooler and other instruments requires the development of interface components between the ground and rotating table. A combination of access holes at the center of the table and two rotary joints allows simultaneous circulation of electricity and helium gas. The developed system provides two innovative functions under the rotating condition, cooling from room temperature and the maintenance of a cold condition for long periods. We have confirmed these abilities as well as temperature stability under a condition of continuous rotation at 20 rpm. The developed system can be applied in various fields, e. g., in tests of Lorentz invariance, searches for axion, radio astronomy, and cosmology, and application of radar systems. In particular, there is a plan to use this system for a radio telescope observing cosmic microwave background radiation. (C) 2013 AIP Publishing LLC.
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