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A Road Map to Extreme High Vacuum

Conference ·
OSTI ID:908827
Ultimate pressure of a well-designed vacuum system very much depends on pretreatments, processing and the procedures [1,2]. Until now much attention has been paid in minimizing hydrogen outgassing from the chamber material. However, procedures and processing deserves further scrutiny than hitherto given so far. For reducing the gas load, high sensitivity helium leak detection techniques with sensitivities better than 1× 10-12 Torr l/sec need to be used. Effects that are induced by vacuum instrumentation need to be reduced in order to obtain accurate pressure measurements. This presentation will discuss: clean assembly procedures, metal sponges for cryosorption pumping of hydrogen to extreme high vacuum, low cost surface diffusion barriers for reducing the hydrogen gas load, cascade pumping, sensitive helium leak detection techniques and the use of modified extractor and residual gas analyzers. Further, alternative back up pumping systems based on active NEG’s [3] for turbo molecular pumps will be presented.
Research Organization:
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE - Office of Energy Research (ER)
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-06OR23177
OSTI ID:
908827
Report Number(s):
JLAB-ACO-07-663; DOE/OR/23177-3678
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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