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Experiments with Supersonic Beams as a Source of Cold Atoms

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Skimmer<br />

300 l/s Turbo Pump<br />

Even-Lavie<br />

<strong>Supersonic</strong><br />

Nozzle<br />

300 l/s Turbo Pump<br />

Figure 3.3: A CAD image <strong>of</strong> the nozzle chamber. The chamber is pumped by two<br />

300 l/s turbo pumps (indicated). The Even-Lavie nozzle hangs from a pool type<br />

cryostat into the center <strong>of</strong> the right 6 inch cross (the beam propagates left in this<br />

image). The skimmer h<strong>as</strong> a 5 mm aperture and is 5 cm long and sits ≈ 30 cm from<br />

the nozzle.<br />

finally a description <strong>of</strong> the detection system and experimental control system.<br />

3.3.1 The Vacuum System<br />

The vacuum system for this experiment is divided into three distinct sections,<br />

the beam creation chamber, the rotor chamber, and the detection chamber. The<br />

beam creation chamber consists <strong>of</strong> one 4-way 6 inch cross, and one 6-way 6 inch cross.<br />

These were purch<strong>as</strong>ed from HPS [59] and are custom made to have a tolerance <strong>of</strong><br />

.5 ◦ in parallelism and perpendicularity <strong>of</strong> the flanges, and are constructed to .02 inch<br />

tolerances. These tolerances ensures that the Even-Lavie nozzle sits in the center <strong>of</strong><br />

the chamber and that the beam propagates along the center-line <strong>of</strong> the chambers.<br />

An image <strong>of</strong> the beam creation chamber <strong>with</strong> the Even-Lavie valve is shown<br />

in figure 3.3. The chamber is pumped by two 300 l/s Leybold turbo pumps, which<br />

maintain a pressure <strong>of</strong> 10 −6 torr when the nozzle is operating at a repetition rate<br />

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