More helpfully, the University of Cambridge Cavendish Laboratory is moving and consolidating their larger cryostats in one hall, with the taller ones going in one of two 1.5m deep trenches, which are covered with wooden boards with cut-outs for the cryostats. The trenches are in a huge slab of concrete to prevent any vibrations getting through to the cryostats. Having installed a test cryostat to check that there are no vibrations, I found out that there were vibrations coming through where there should not be any. So I’ve been grubbing around under the boards taking measurements in various places to try to work out what is going on.
At the moment the job varies between working on exotic machinery which is used to probe the fundamental forces of nature, and crawling around in holes in the ground.
More helpfully, the University of Cambridge Cavendish Laboratory is moving and consolidating their larger cryostats in one hall, with the taller ones going in one of two 1.5m deep trenches, which are covered with wooden boards with cut-outs for the cryostats. The trenches are in a huge slab of concrete to prevent any vibrations getting through to the cryostats. Having installed a test cryostat to check that there are no vibrations, I found out that there were vibrations coming through where there should not be any. So I’ve been grubbing around under the boards taking measurements in various places to try to work out what is going on.
Woah, nice. That sounds like interesting work.
At the moment the job varies between working on exotic machinery which is used to probe the fundamental forces of nature, and crawling around in holes in the ground.