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Presently various commercial cryogenic pressure sensors are being investigated for installation in the LHC collider, they will eventually be used to assess that the magnets are fully immersed in liquid and to monitor fast pressure transients.
In the framework of this selection procedure, a cryogenic pressure calibration facility has been designed and built. It is based on a cryogenic primary pressure reference made of a bellows that converts the pressure into a force measurement. For that, a shaft transfers this force to a precision force transducer at room temperature. Knowing the liquid bath pressure and the surface area of the bellows, the pressure applied to the transducers under calibration is calculated; corrections due to thermal contraction are introduced. To avoid loss of force in the bellows wall, its length is maintained constant; a cold capacitive displacement sensor measures this. The calibration temperature covers 1.5 K to 4.2 K and the pressure 0 to 20 bar. In contrast with more classical techniques that refer to a pressure reference at room temperature, the method presented in this paper avoid errors due to the uncertainty on the hydrostatic head calculation, to thermoacoustic oscillations and to pressure variation caused by temperature drift along the sensing capillary.
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Bager, T., Casas, J., Metral, L. (2000). Cryogenic Pressure Calibration Facility Using a Cold Force Reference. In: Shu, QS. (eds) Advances in Cryogenic Engineering. Advances in Cryogenic Engineering. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4215-5_117
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