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Surge current and electron swarm tunnel tests of thermal blanket and ground strap materials
The results are described of a series of current conduction tests with a thermal control blanket to which grounding straps have been attached. The material and the ground strap attachment procedure are described. The current conduction tests consisted of a surge current examination of the ground strap and a dilute flow, energetic electron deposition and transport through the bulk of the insulating film of this thermal blanket material. Both of these test procedures were used previously with thermal control blanket materials
Direct evaporative cooling of 41K into a Bose-Einstein condensate
We have investigated the collisional properties of 41K atoms at ultracold
temperature. To show the possibility to use 41K as a coolant, a Bose-Einstein
condensate of 41K atoms in the stretched state (F=2, m_F=2) was created for the
first time by direct evaporation in a magnetic trap. An upper bound of three
body loss coefficient for atoms in the condensate was determined to be 4(2)
10^{-29} cm -6 s-1. A Feshbach resonance in the F=1, m_F=-1 state was observed
at 51.42(5) G, which is in good agreement with theoretical prediction.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
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