An automatic liquid-nitrogen filling system for multiple Ge detectors

Mitsuo Koizumi; Masumi Oshima; Yosuke Toh; Atsushi Kimura; Tadahiro Kin; Kazuyoshi Furutaka; Yukihiro Murakami; Akihiko Osa; Shingo Ando

doi:10.1063/1.3059684

An automatic liquid-nitrogen filling system for multiple Ge detectors

Rev Sci Instrum. 2009 Jan;80(1):016102. doi: 10.1063/1.3059684.

Authors

Mitsuo Koizumi¹, Masumi Oshima, Yosuke Toh, Atsushi Kimura, Tadahiro Kin, Kazuyoshi Furutaka, Yukihiro Murakami, Akihiko Osa, Shingo Ando

Affiliation

¹ Nuclear Science and Engineering Directorate, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Shirakata Shirane 2-4, Toukaimura, Naka, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan. koizumi.mitsuo@jaea.go.jp

PMID: 19191463
DOI: 10.1063/1.3059684

Abstract

In order to reduce the time and effort of the daily task of refilling Dewar vessels of Ge detectors with liquid nitrogen (LN(2)), we have developed an automatic LN(2) filling system equipped with a LN(2) plant. With this system, we were freed from the work of LN(2) filling. Such an LN(2) filling system is useful for moderate-scale Ge detector arrays consisting of fewer than 20 Ge detectors.