Search results for "liquid helium"
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Wellentypen in Helium II-Schichten
1968
In liquid helium two wave modes are possible. Their properties may be analysed by solving the thermohydrodynamical equations under the condition that the tangential component of the normal fluid velocity is vanishing on the walls. In the present paper, these two types of wave propagation are determined for a plane-parallel capillary with the heat conduction and the thermal expansion being neglected and with the width of the capillary being much smaller than the penetration depth of a viscous wave. In particular, the dispersion relations of both, the so called fourth sound and an overdamped mode are calculated. (This overdamped mode may be called fifth wave mode.) The velocity fields can be …
Gain stabilization and noise minimization for SiPMs at cryogenic temperatures
2018
Abstract The performance of solid-state photon detectors such as avalanche photodiodes or silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) is strongly affected by temperature. Important device characteristics for the detection of low light levels or single photons are photon detection efficiency, dark noise, and gain. In the present work the C-series SiPMs from SensL was characterized in cryogenic environments. At 77 K the SiPMs proved to be an excellent choice for single photon detection and an operation point with minimum noise contributions was found. At 4 K the performance was degraded, exhibiting a smaller gain and a larger noise.
Streuung von 50 keV-Elektronen an flüssigem Helium
1970
The behaviour of liquid helium in relation to electron-scattering has been investigated. Electrons of 50 keV have been scattered by thin targets of liquid helium with temperatures between 1.34 and 2.15 K. The thickness of targets was chosen between 0.047 and 0.62 mm. The angular distribution and the energy loss of the scattered electrons have been measured in dependence on the thickness of layer and on temperature. The extrapolated range of electrons in liquid helium has been determined.
Towards a magnetic field stabilization at ISOLTRAP for high-accuracy mass measurements on exotic nuclides
2008
Abstract The field stability of a mass spectrometer plays a crucial role in the accuracy of mass measurements. In the case of mass determination of short-lived nuclides with a Penning trap, major causes of fluctuations are temperature variations in the vicinity of the trap and pressure changes in the liquid helium cryostat of the superconducting magnet. Thus systems for the temperature and pressure stabilization of the Penning trap mass spectrometer ISOLTRAP at the ISOLDE facility at CERN have been installed. A reduction of the temperature and pressure fluctuations by at least an order of magnitude down to Δ T ≈ ± 5 mK and Δ p ≈ ± 5 Pa has been achieved, which corresponds to a relative magn…
Non-equilibrium Thermodynamical Description of Superfluid Transition in Liquid Helium
2017
In previous papers a phase field model for λ-transition in 4He was proposed, which is able to describe the influence of the heat flux on the temperature transition. The model presented here generalizes previous results taking into account of a homogeneous presence of quantized vortices below the λ-transition. As parameter that controls the transition, a dimensionless field f linked to the modulus of the condensate wave function is used. In addition to the field f , the resulting model chooses the following field variables: Density, velocity, temperature and heat flux. Nonlocal terms to describe inhomogeneities in the field variables and dissipative effects of mechanical and thermal origin…
Effects of heat flux on lambda transition in liquid 4He,
2014
This paper is concerned with the derivation of a phase field model for λ-transition in 4He, when the liquid is subject to pressure and heat flux. As parameter that controls the transition, a field f that is the geometrical mean between the density of the fluid and that of the superfluid is used. The resulting model, that is a generalization of previous papers on the same subject, chooses as field variables the density, the velocity, the temperature and the heat flux, in addition to this field f. The restrictions on the constitutive quantities are obtained by using the Liu method of Lagrange multipliers. New results with respect to previous models are the presence of non-local terms to descr…
Phase transition in liquid 4HE by a mean field model
2013
In this work the transition of 4He at the lambda line in presence of a Cattaneo- Maxwell heat flux is studied. A hydrodynamical model is formulated, which chooses as fundamental fields the velocity, the temperature, the heat flux and a phase field function f, for which a time dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation is proposed. Using this model we are able to describe the phase transition and to obtain the pressure-temperature phase diagram which represents the transition, the thermodynamic restrictions and a maximum theorem for the phase field.
Silicon photomultiplier properties at cryogenic temperatures
2015
Abstract The properties of different types of silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) were studied at cryogenic temperatures. In liquid nitrogen at 77 K, problems with quenching in Hamamatsu SiPMs and with the protective epoxy layer, covering Zecotek SiPMs, were observed. Tests with one Zecotek SiPM were successful after removal of the epoxy layer. In liquid helium at 4 K, fast signals with pulse lengths shorter than 50 ns were observed, the dark count rate was below 10 Hz and no after-pulses were detected. The gain, as a function of over-voltage, was comparable to room temperature. The SiPM׳s response to photons was found to be linear with intensity for low light levels and single-photon detectio…
Propagation of fourth sound in turbulent superfluids via extended thermodynamics
2011
The work deals with further developments of a study previously initiated, in which a macroscopic one-fluid model of inhomogeneous turbulent superfluids, based on extended thermodynamics, had been formulated. In this work the study is carried on. First the influence of the remnant vortices on the propagation of the first and second sound is studied. Then a boundary condition able to explain the reversible flow of superfluid flowing through a thin capillary is postulated and two vector fields, which have the dimensions of velocity and can be interpreted as the velocities of normal and superfluid components, are introduced. By using these new fields, a comparison between this model and the Hal…
Longitudinal counterflow in turbulent liquid helium: velocity profile of the normal component
2013
In this paper, the velocity profile of the normal component in the stationary flow of turbulent superfluid helium inside a cylindrical channel is determined, making use of a one-fluid model with internal variables derived from Extended Thermodynamics. In the hypothesis of null barycentric velocity of the fluid (the so-called counterflow situation) it is seen that, in the presence of a sufficiently high vortex length density, the velocity profile of the normal component becomes very flat in the central region of the channel. Thus, a central flat profile of the normal fluid does not necessarily imply that the flow of the normal component is turbulent.