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The helium refrigeration system that will cool the superconducting magnets of the RHIC machine are discussed. Compressors, refrigerator, gas distribution, storage and handling equipment are summarized, noting the quantity of estimated excess capacity available for use by experimenters. Collaboration between RHIC cryogenics and experimenters interested in helium based turbulence research provides a unique opportunity for the economical utilization of government owned scientific assets.
This work was performed under the auspices of the U. S. Department of Energy
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Sondericker, J.H. (1998). A Brief Overview of the RHIC Cryogenic System. In: Donnelly, R.J., Sreenivasan, K.R. (eds) Flow at Ultra-High Reynolds and Rayleigh Numbers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2230-9_21
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