Abstract
A magnetically driven piston pump for xenon gas recirculation is presented. The pump is designed to satisfy extreme purity and containment requirements, as is appropriate for the recirculation of isotopically enriched xenon through the purification system and large liquid xenon time projection chamber of EXO-200. The pump, using sprung polymer gaskets, is capable of pumping more than 16 standard liters per minute of xenon gas with 750 Torr differential pressure.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 105114 |
Journal | Review of Scientific Instruments |
Volume | 82 |
Issue number | 10 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 2011 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We thank K. Merkle and J. Kirk (Stanford) for the careful machining of parts and Professor D. DeBra (Stanford) for the suggestion of using UHMWPE gaskets. EXO is supported by U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) and National Science Foundation (NSF) in the United States, NSERC in Canada, FNS in Switzerland, and MSE and Russian Federation for Basic Research (RFBR) (N 10-02-00484) in Russia.
Funding
We thank K. Merkle and J. Kirk (Stanford) for the careful machining of parts and Professor D. DeBra (Stanford) for the suggestion of using UHMWPE gaskets. EXO is supported by U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) and National Science Foundation (NSF) in the United States, NSERC in Canada, FNS in Switzerland, and MSE and Russian Federation for Basic Research (RFBR) (N 10-02-00484) in Russia.
Funders | Funder number |
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National Science Foundation Arctic Social Science Program | |
U.S. Department of Energy EPSCoR | |
David O. McKay School of Education, Brigham Young University | |
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | |
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung | |
Russian Foundation for Basic Research | N 10-02-00484 |
Russian Foundation for Basic Research |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Instrumentation