An apparatus for studying electrical breakdown in liquid helium at 0.4 K and testing electrode materials for the neutron electric dipole moment experiment at the Spallation Neutron Source

Ito, T. M.; Ramsey, J. C.; Yao, W.; Beck, D. H.; Cianciolo, V.; Clayton, S. M.; Crawford, C.; Currie, S. A.; Filippone, B. W.; Griffith, W. C.; Makela, M.; Schmid, R.; Seidel, G. M.; Tang, Z.; Wagner, D.; Wei, W.; Williamson, S. E.

doi:10.1063/1.4946896

Title: An apparatus for studying electrical breakdown in liquid helium at 0.4 K and testing electrode materials for the neutron electric dipole moment experiment at the Spallation Neutron Source

Authors:

^[1]; Ramsey, J. C. ^[1]; Yao, W. ^[2];

^[3];

^[2]; Clayton, S. M. ^[1]; Crawford, C. ^[4]; Currie, S. A. ^[1];

^[5];

^[1]; Makela, M. ^[1]; Schmid, R. ^[5]; Seidel, G. M. ^[6]; Tang, Z. ^[1]; Wagner, D. ^[4]; Wei, W. ^[1]; Williamson, S. E. ^[3]

Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL (United States). Loomis Lab. of Physics
Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). W.K. Kellogg Radiation Lab.
Brown Univ., Providence, RI (United States). Dept. of Physics

Publication Date:: Mon Apr 25 00:00:00 EDT 2016

Research Org.:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)

OSTI Identifier:: 1261310

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1249777; OSTI ID: 1409751

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-15-27666
Journal ID: ISSN 0034-6748; KB0401022; ERKBP16

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725; AC52-06NA25396

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Review of Scientific Instruments

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 87; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 0034-6748

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; Atomic and Nuclear Physics

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                    Ito, T. M., Ramsey, J. C., Yao, W., Beck, D. H., Cianciolo, V., Clayton, S. M., Crawford, C., Currie, S. A., Filippone, B. W., Griffith, W. C., Makela, M., Schmid, R., Seidel, G. M., Tang, Z., Wagner, D., Wei, W., and Williamson, S. E. An apparatus for studying electrical breakdown in liquid helium at 0.4 K and testing electrode materials for the neutron electric dipole moment experiment at the Spallation Neutron Source.  United States: N. p., 2016. 
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                    Ito, T. M., Ramsey, J. C., Yao, W., Beck, D. H., Cianciolo, V., Clayton, S. M., Crawford, C., Currie, S. A., Filippone, B. W., Griffith, W. C., Makela, M., Schmid, R., Seidel, G. M., Tang, Z., Wagner, D., Wei, W., & Williamson, S. E. An apparatus for studying electrical breakdown in liquid helium at 0.4 K and testing electrode materials for the neutron electric dipole moment experiment at the Spallation Neutron Source.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4946896

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                    Ito, T. M., Ramsey, J. C., Yao, W., Beck, D. H., Cianciolo, V., Clayton, S. M., Crawford, C., Currie, S. A., Filippone, B. W., Griffith, W. C., Makela, M., Schmid, R., Seidel, G. M., Tang, Z., Wagner, D., Wei, W., and Williamson, S. E. Mon .  
"An apparatus for studying electrical breakdown in liquid helium at 0.4 K and testing electrode materials for the neutron electric dipole moment experiment at the Spallation Neutron Source".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4946896.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1261310.

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  title        = {An apparatus for studying electrical breakdown in liquid helium at 0.4 K and testing electrode materials for the neutron electric dipole moment experiment at the Spallation Neutron Source},

  author       = {Ito, T. M. and Ramsey, J. C. and Yao, W. and Beck, D. H. and Cianciolo, V. and Clayton, S. M. and Crawford, C. and Currie, S. A. and Filippone, B. W. and Griffith, W. C. and Makela, M. and Schmid, R. and Seidel, G. M. and Tang, Z. and Wagner, D. and Wei, W. and Williamson, S. E.},

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