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2013/06/23

1515 IVC pressure 4E-6 mbar. Open up line to leak checker and isolate turbo pump in preparation for nitrogen blow-out.
1525 Background helium leak rate 4.8E-9 mbar l/s. Isolate He-4 pump after evacuating helium gas line. Commence nitrogen blow-out.
1550 Mixing chamber temperature 77.1 K. Conduct electrical check: no major problems. QET & QET Return lines to ground yield around 2 nS & 1 nS on DIBs 1 (stripline 27) & 2 (stripline 19) respectively. Nothing to worry about during this run, but may affect a future 100 mm IZIP detector test.
1620 Nitrogen blow-out complete. Helium leak rate gradually rose to 6.8E-9 mbar l/s: no gross leak.
1645 Evacuate main bath. Evacuate 1 K pot. Overpressurise main bath with He-4 gas. Background helium leak rate 9E-9 mbar l/s. Helium leak rate rises to 9.5E-9 mbar l/s: no gross leak.
Isolate leak checker and evacuate IVC with turbo pump.
1740 Pump mixture out of cryopump into dump using He-3 pump.
Isolate IVC at pressure of 3.4E-6 mbar. Start evacuating helium transfer stick with turbo pump. Pressure inside helium transfer stick's vacuum jacket reached 4E-2 mbar before falling.
1815 Pressure in helium transfer stick's vacuum jacket 1E-4 mbar. Stop pumping on vacuum jacket.
Recommence evacuating IVC with turbo pump.
Cease pumping on cryopump with He-3 pump. Pressure in dump 702 mbar - lower than that in March (715 mbar), but it is cooler in the laboratory. Therefore, this is probably fine and we haven't lost any mixture.
1840 Fill N2 cold trap full. Isolate nitrogen cold trap 1. Start cryocleaning mixture through nitrogen cold trap 2.
1850 Fill IVC with 0.016 mbar He-4 exchange gas.
1907 Commence first helium transfer.
2210 End helium transfer (91.6%).