Objective
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The Low Temperature Laboratory (LTL) at the Helsinki University of Technology, 7 km west of the center of Helsinki, offers expertise, facilities, and equipment for outside Users to undertake measurements at temperatures from 4 K down to the lowest attainable to date. The Large-Scale Facility ULTI II, a continuation of the present HCM ULTI, expects to contribute to scientific progress and technical development of ultra low temperature physics in Europe, to serve as a first-rate educational center for young physicists and, because of its long-standing connections with low temperature research in the east, to act as a node for scientific collaboration between Russia and the EU countries. The in-house research includes experimental programs on (i) refrigeration and cryogenics in the liquid helium range and below, and (ii) studies of quantum fluids and solids, (iii) nuclear magnetism, and (iv) electrical transport in normal and superconducting structures of nanometer size. The low temperature section of the LTL consists of 28 researchers of whom 3 are professors, 4 docents, and 2 more junior PhD level scientists; the rest are graduate or undergraduate students. Technical and clerical employees amount to 6 persons.
The ULT refrigeration equipment includes three cryostats with a 3He-4He dilution refrigerator for precooling a copper nuclear demagnetization stage. Two of this apparata can be rotated around their vertical axes up to 40 rev /min. The third is a cascade refrigerator with two nuclear cooling stages in series; many world-records of low temperature have been made with this machine. Smaller cryostats are available for test experiments down to 20 mK.
Quantity of access being offered and number of users who may benefit: Of the total work load of the ULT installation in Helsinki, 15% (108 months) would be allocated to visitors participating in the TMR programme. On average three EC-sponsored users would work in the LTL, which means that about 30 persons could benefit from ULTI II in three years.
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