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  • Lab Update
    • Added about 40 mbar 4He to mixture on Monday, then tried to cool again. Couldn't cool below 0.4 K
    • Fridge behavior suggested that the problem was not anything to do with circulation, but rather some new heat source
    • Hypothesis: there's He in the IVC, and warming the 1K Pot to add new mixture caused it to shift around to somewhere where it caused a thermal bridge
    • We stopped circulation and boiled the bath away, warmed the MC to about 12 K, watched the IVC pressure - saw an increase and pumped this away
    • Did another LHe transfer yesterday
    • Start circulation again today: cooling down well, currently MC<30 mK.
  • General Updates