Design and construction of a cryogenic subcooler-box for supplying single phase supercritical helium to dark matter and gravitational wave experiments

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Autores principales: Singh, Udai Raj, Ramalingam, Rajinikumar, Reinhardt, Christoph, Korth, Olaf, Penning, Jörg, Schaffran, Jörn, Lindner, Axel
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author Singh, Udai Raj
Ramalingam, Rajinikumar
Reinhardt, Christoph
Korth, Olaf
Penning, Jörg
Schaffran, Jörn
Lindner, Axel
author_facet Singh, Udai Raj
Ramalingam, Rajinikumar
Reinhardt, Christoph
Korth, Olaf
Penning, Jörg
Schaffran, Jörn
Lindner, Axel
contents We report on the design, development, and installation of the ALPS Cryo-Platform Subcooler Box (ACPS), which is part of the cryogenic platform being established in the HERA North Hall at DESY to supply helium for cooling large-scale dark-matter and gravitational-wave experiments with very high heat loads. The ACPS is capable of subcooling supercritical helium supplied via the 1.6-km-long HERA transfer line by means of a pipe heat exchanger immersed in a subcooler bath filled with liquid helium produced through Joule-Thomson valves. It is also equipped with numerous cryogenic components, including control valves, flow meters, and safety valves, enabling experimental operation to be carried out directly by the ACPS itself and thereby reducing the cryogenic requirements imposed on the experiments. To support a wide range of experiments, the ACPS provides three transfer lines that deliver different levels of cooling power.
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spellingShingle Design and construction of a cryogenic subcooler-box for supplying single phase supercritical helium to dark matter and gravitational wave experiments
Singh, Udai Raj
Ramalingam, Rajinikumar
Reinhardt, Christoph
Korth, Olaf
Penning, Jörg
Schaffran, Jörn
Lindner, Axel
Instrumentation and Detectors
We report on the design, development, and installation of the ALPS Cryo-Platform Subcooler Box (ACPS), which is part of the cryogenic platform being established in the HERA North Hall at DESY to supply helium for cooling large-scale dark-matter and gravitational-wave experiments with very high heat loads. The ACPS is capable of subcooling supercritical helium supplied via the 1.6-km-long HERA transfer line by means of a pipe heat exchanger immersed in a subcooler bath filled with liquid helium produced through Joule-Thomson valves. It is also equipped with numerous cryogenic components, including control valves, flow meters, and safety valves, enabling experimental operation to be carried out directly by the ACPS itself and thereby reducing the cryogenic requirements imposed on the experiments. To support a wide range of experiments, the ACPS provides three transfer lines that deliver different levels of cooling power.
title Design and construction of a cryogenic subcooler-box for supplying single phase supercritical helium to dark matter and gravitational wave experiments
topic Instrumentation and Detectors
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.08496