Atacama Pathfinder Experiment
Cryoconnect has supplied state-of-the-art niobium titanium wires to the APEX-SZ Experiment, which will be mounted on the APEX (Atacama Pathfinder Experiment for the Alma Atacama Large Millimetre Array) telescope. The construction of this telescope began during the summer of 2006. The APEX-SZ Experiment will study galaxy clusters via the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect with unprecedented sensitivity.
Cryoconnect supplied a new generation of cryogenic looms which will be at the front end of data collection on the TES bolometer arrays and SQUID detectors, enabling a team of international scientists to study distant galaxies. The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array, onto which APEX will be mounted, is located on the Chajnantor plain of the Chilean Andes in the District of San Pedro de Atacama, 5000 m above sea level.
For more information on the APEX-SZ experiment, visit http://bolo.berkeley.edu/apexsz/
APEX-SZ Receiver Layout diagram, showing Cryoconnect’s feed-through receptacles in yellow
Cryoconnect’s connectors on APEX-SZ Receiver
Wiring once installed into place