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2020/10/14 (Wednesday)

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  • Lab in-person: Ruiren
  • Virtual partner: Matt
Setup Run 73. DIB 1/3/4 → Stripline 43/48/41 → pi-filters 1/2/3 → Cable 3/1/2 → nothing/nothing/accessory_interposer → HV_Conn 1/3/2 → HV 1/2 → DCRCX(4)/DCRC55(1)-master; DCRC33(2) → HV control. DCRCs on. Lead/poly shield erected (4 lead walls, 2 poly walls).
1000 Problem with Remote Desktop connection to fridge computer. Doesn't accept keyboard entries. That's true from multiple peoples' home computers, although my iPad partially works.
1025 MB = 68.0%
1040 Tower = 59.8 mK. Was bouncing between 60.8 and 61.8, now cooling. Maybe it's cooling because I relocked some QETs.
1040 Ruiren body temperature = 36.7 C
1109 Tower/MC/Coldplate = 60.4/31.1/196 mK, Still = 1.50 K / 0.130 mbar / 0 mW, G1/G2= 237/238 mbar, 1K Pot = 1.63 K / 22±2 mbar.
1118 Fill LN2 cold trap bath
1135 The keyboard of the fridge computer seems not working, after rebooting the fridge computer the keyboard is functioning again.
Fridge computer keyboard is now also working through Remote Desktop.
1139 Ruiren leaves lab
1145 Tower = 85.8 mK, cooling down from 190 mK after Ruiren restarted the vi. No idea how high it went or what caused the warming.
1220 Tower = 67.5 mK and cooling
1225 Having trouble now locking SQUIDs. Let's zap.
1225 Zap DCRC1&4 SQUIDs.
1255 Tower = 64.8 mK and cooling
1300 Still having trouble with phonon channels. Stop and restart DAQ programs.
1300 Zap DCRC1&4 SQUIDs.
1325 Tower = 63.3 mK and cooling fast (5 mK/hour). Phonon channels look OK.
1530 Tower = 59.5 mK. Was swinging between 59.6 and 60.8
1530 Tower = 59.4 mK, QET biases = (0, 255, 310, 0)/(0, 335, 325, 350)uA
1530 Start a 60 min series at HV = 0V,
CDMS detector: Driver Gains = 1x, DCRC4/1 QET biases = see above&below, Front-End Gains = (3/3/3)/(5/5/5)
1000 BOR & 5 Hz in-run randoms, trigger on DCRC1pD threshold = 8
Use sequence SimpleDataLoopNoFlash.msl
1534 Tower = 59.2 mK, QET biases = (0, 255, 315, 0)/(0, 335, 330, 350)uA
1540 Tower = 59.0 mK, QET biases = (0, 260, 315, 0)/(0, 335, 330, 355)uA
1551 Tower = 58.8 mK, QET biases = (0, 260, 315, 0)/(0, 335, 335, 355)uA
1617 Tower = 59.0 mK, QET biases = (0, 260, 315, 0)/(0, 335, 330, 355)uA
1622 Tower = 59.3 mK, QET biases = (0, 255, 310, 0)/(0, 335, 325, 350)uA
series ends
1652 Tower = 59.3 mK, QET biases = (0, 255, 310, 0)/(0, 335, 325, 350)uA
1653 Start a 60 min series at HV = +300V, drifting 0.0262 V/s, prebias 15% for 2min,
CDMS detector: Driver Gains = 1x, DCRC4/1 QET biases = see above&below, Front-End Gains = (3/3/3)/(5/5/5)
1000 BOR & 5 Hz in-run randoms, trigger on DCRC1pD threshold = 8
Use RootSequencer.c, function drift_sequence(300,0.0262)
1653 Vtest = 4.5 mV shortly after drift begins. Rootsequencer says drift starts at 313.4 V. 0.57% HV loss.
1656 Tower = 59.1 mK, QET biases = (0, 255, 315, 0)/(0, 335, 330, 355)uA
1722 Tower = 59.5 mK, QET biases = (0, 255, 310, 0)/(0, 335, 325, 350)uA
1725 Tower = 59.7 mK, QET biases = (0, 255, 310, 0)/(0, 330, 325, 345)uA
1728 Tower = 59.9 mK, QET biases = (0, 255, 305, 0)/(0, 330, 320, 345)uA
1730 Tower = 60.1 mK, QET biases = (0, 250, 305, 0)/(0, 330, 320, 345)uA
1732 Tower = 59.9 mK, QET biases = (0, 255, 305, 0)/(0, 330, 320, 345)uA
1738 Tower = 59.7 mK, QET biases = (0, 255, 310, 0)/(0, 330, 325, 345)uA
1745 Tower = 59.4 mK, QET biases = (0, 255, 310, 0)/(0, 335, 325, 350)uA
1754 Vtest = 4.8 V at end of drift. HV = +407.7 V according to RootSequencer. 0.47% HV loss.
1940 Tower = 59.3 mK, QET biases = (0, 255, 310, 0)/(0, 335, 325, 350)uA
1942 Start a 60 min series at HV = +100V, drifting 0.0274 V/s, prebias 15% for 2min,
CDMS detector: Driver Gains = 1x, DCRC4/1 QET biases = (0,180,210,0)/(0,275,230,275)uA, Front-End Gains = (3/3/3)/(5/5/5)
1000 BOR & 5 Hz in-run randoms, trigger on DCRC1pD threshold = 8
Use RootSequencer.c, function drift_sequence(100,0.0274)
1942 Vtest = 1.3 mV shortly after drift begins. Drift appears to start at 105.9 V. 0.49% HV loss
1948 Tower = 59.1 mK, QET biases = (0, 255, 315, 0)/(0, 335, 330, 355)uA
2024 Tower = 58.9 mK, QET biases = (0, 260, 315, 0)/(0, 335, 330, 355)uA
2043 Drift ends, no apparent lag. Vtest = 2.1 mV. HV at end of drift looks like 204.0 V, indicating 0.41% HV loss

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