ISL Cooling Task Force

This Task Force was formed to address some anomalously behaving cooling lines of the ISL detector. We eventually discovered that these lines were blocked with epoxy. We developed methods to target and remove the epoxy in situ using a Nd:YAG laser. We fully recovered 11 of 12 blocked cooling lines. The repaired lines have been delivering physics quality data since mid-2002. The remaining blocked line is extremely difficult and is not likely to be recovered.

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Last updated 07-Oct-2003 by

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