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most citedAn apparatus for studying electrical breakdown in liquid helium at 0.4 K and testing electrode materials for the SNS nEDM experiment

17 citations · 51 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

physics.chem-ph2026

Comparative measurements of DC electrical breakdown distributions in liquid nitrogen, liquid helium, and liquid argon

N. S. Phan, S. M. Clayton, R. Gautam +4

We present a comparative study of DC electrical breakdown in liquid nitrogen, liquid helium, and liquid argon using a common cryostat, electrode assembly, voltage-ramp protocol, an…

physics.ins-det2026

Electrode Design for a Cavallo High Voltage Multiplier in a Cryogenic nEDM Experiment

Marie A. Blatnik, Steven M. Clayton, Bradley W. Filippone +4

The Cavallo multiplier [http://archive.org/details/b28771035_0003] is an electrostatic inductance machine that can generate low-noise high voltages electrically isolated from its v…

physics.ins-det2020★ 10 cited

A study of DC electrical breakdown in liquid helium through analysis of the empirical breakdown field distributions

N. S. Phan, W. Wei, B. Beaumont +6

We report results from a study on electrical breakdown in liquid helium using near-uniform-field stainless steel electrodes with a stressed area of 0.725 cm. The distribu…

physics.ins-det2020★ 12 cited

Effect of an electric field on liquid helium scintillation produced by fast electrons

N. S. Phan, V. Cianciolo, S. M. Clayton +11

The dependence on applied electric field ( kV/cm) of the scintillation light produced by fast electrons and particles stopped in liquid helium in the temperature range…

physics.ins-det2015★ 17 cited

An apparatus for studying electrical breakdown in liquid helium at 0.4 K and testing electrode materials for the SNS nEDM experiment

T. M. Ito, J. C. Ramsey, W. Yao +14

We have constructed an apparatus to study DC electrical breakdown in liquid helium at temperatures as low as 0.4 K and at pressures between the saturated vapor pressure and 6…

physics.ins-det2014★ 2 cited

High electric field development for the SNS nEDM Experiment

T. M. Ito, D. H. Beck, S. M. Clayton +9

A new experiment to search for the permanent electric dipole moment of the neutron is being developed for installation at the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Labora…

physics.ins-det2012★ 10 cited

Development of a SQUID-based 3He Co-magnetometer Readout for a Neutron Electric Dipole Moment Experiment

Young Jin Kim, Steven M. Clayton

A discovery of a permanent electric dipole moment (EDM) of the neutron would provide one of the most important low energy tests of the discrete symmetries beyond the Standard Model…