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SacState Low Temp @SacStateLowTemp

Low temperature physics lab at Sacramento State University studying liquid and solid helium. Website: webpages.csus.edu/nsm-phys-l…

Joined March 2016
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Amazing bit of machining done by summer student Justin. We will use this to help us measure the thermal contraction of 3D printed materials.
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New pump for the lab. It is so quiet compared to the old one that when I turned it on I thought it wasn't working.
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Summer 2022 Students: Kyle Matt and Towy.
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We finally have a working fridge in the lab! I guess we are now officially the coolest place in Sacramento!
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The fridge is a cryogen free system that was #madeatsacstate with many components designed and built by undergraduate students! Now on to the science!
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Is there any sweeter sound than that of a pulse tube cryocooler?
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It's never a good sign when your cryostat is upside down on the bench on a Friday afternoon.
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Today's development: heat sink bobbins have been named Bilbo, as in Bilbo Bobbins
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Back in the lab this summer with students Jack and Ryann!
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And one more, Jack presents his work on modeling parallel RLC circuits. #apsmarch
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And another great talk by lab member @ryannelizz_
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Alejandro kicking off the march meeting for the lab! #apsmarch
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Finally getting some time back in the lab, and I can tell that this pumping line is really going to suck!
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New publication out of the Sac State Low Temperature Physics laboratory with former student @aleks_tad, and current student Alejandro Reyes. doi.org/10.1063/1.5119720
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Hooray, that means we start 20 K closer to liquid helium!
Associate Deans@ass_deans
16 Dec 2019
As part of our efforts to conserve energy and create a green campus, over winter break your offices will be kept at a temperature just warm enough to keep the office plumbing from freezing.
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We're dreaming of a white Christmas too.
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Science! @KevinCoan
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And we, at the sac state low temperature physics lab, continue on that chapter of low-temperature helium research.
The Nobel Prize
@NobelPrize
21 Sep 2019
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was the first person to liquefy helium - opening up an entirely new chapter in low-temperature physics. Onnes, born #OTD 1853, used an ingenious apparatus to cool helium to liquid form. He was awarded the 1913 Physics Prize for his discovery.
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New lab mascot.
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Any *good* experiment is wrapped in aluminum foil.
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