Background Helium Levels in the Experimental Halls

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Background Helium Levels in the Experimental Halls S. Murri 19 June, 2017

Motivation Since elevated Helium concentrations are known to cause quartz PMT’s to malfunction over time, getting some idea of the source and magnitude of Helium leaks in Hall C is a requirement for ensuring the lab avoids wasting time and money on buying and installing PMT’s that could become inoperable in much less than the 10-20 year lifetime of a normal detector. How Well Do We Have to Control Helium Backgrounds for Long-Term PMT Survival?, Dave Mack, 3 May, 2017

Method The PHD-4 (Portable Helium Detector) has two sensitivity modes, Low Sensitivity (LS) and High Sensitivity (HS). HS mode is meant to detect He concentrations between 0 and 250 ppm and LS mode is meant to detect between 100 and 500 ppm. The PHD-4 also has two zero modes, Auto-Zero (AZ) and Fixed-Zero (FZ). The AZ mode works by continuously compensating the sensor reading and updating the internal computer’s zero offset to the ambient He levels. Activating FZ mode simply stops this update process and keeps the latest zero offset. To be able to detect absolute He levels as best as possible, we would turn on the detector and activate FZ mode while in fresh air so the only zero offset would be from natural atmospheric He (estimated to be around 5 ppm). In our experience, if the detector samples a particularly high concentration of He (around the top of the sensitivity scale), it will become “saturated” and usually requires time or a cleanup to purge the system of He. g

Hall C Helium Levels (Measured on June 8, 2017) 0 ppm 60-70 ppm 120 ppm Lowest Deck: 120-140 ppm Power Supply Deck:140-150 ppm Detector Hut: 130-140 ppm Upper Deck: 150-160 ppm 140 ppm To Hall A To Hall B Truck Ramp

Findings The He levels in Hall C varied greatly depending on the particular day we took measurements. Possible influences in this are the ramp door being open or closed, the smoke removal fans being on or off, etc. The HMS’s Q2 cryo-can seemed to have fairly significant He leaks due to deteriorating O-rings. We estimated this leak to be <5 cc’s per second, which corresponds to <435 liters of gaseous He per day. The latent He near those leaks was enough to overload our detector (>250 ppm). He levels in and around the SHMS were somewhat lower, but still very high, getting up to around 180 ppm. When He levels were high in Hall C, there was relatively little altitude dependence, which lead us to believe the atmospheric mixing is fairly significant. Hall D appeared to be mostly clean, as we only measured small amounts of He near the detector magnets. In Hall A, we measured no He as we walked from the labyrinth door through the hall and up the truck ramp.

He Removal Model 1 (unrealistically short time to flush Helium out of Hall C after a quench) This model assumes all leaks have been stopped. The linear removal comes from the assumption that there is no mixing in the atmosphere within the hall. Assuming the He removal due to fresh air ventilation is constant, we can calculate an amount of time required to completely replace the atmosphere of Hall C with fresh air. According to Walt Akers’ tech note from Nov 2016, the supply of fresh air to Hall C is a fan that pumps in 1,300 ft^3/minute of outside air. Dividing the total volume of the hall (listed in the same document) by this rate will give the total time required to completely fill the hall with fresh air.

He Removal Model 2 (more realistic time to flush Helium out of Hall C after a quench) A less naïve model is one that assumes a high degree of mixing. With this assumption, we can use ODE’s to model the volume of He in the hall as a function of time. Model 2 also has all He leaks stopped. Eg, assume there has been an quench and we want to know how long it will take to flush out > 99% of the Helium. We can use the differential equation which has the solution (★) where Hei is the initial concentration in ppm. In this case, τ is a time constant specific to hall C, a calculation of which is shown on the final slide. We can then build a function that outputs the time required for a leak of known volume to fall to a specific concentration. Here, T and τ are in minutes and Hei and Hef are in ppm. Assuming only normal fresh air flow (ie, no smoke removal fans), τ is calculated in a backup slide to be 12 hours. To flush the Hall arguably requires 5 time constants, or ~60 hours.

He Leak and Removal Model 3 (estimating the size of the leak from the equilibrium concentration) This model also assumes an exponential decay in He due to the fresh air fan, but also a constant He leak. Our differential equation is now Where rl is the leak rate in ppm/min. A solution to this is (★★) This has an equilibrium value of rlτ as t -> ∞ , or more practically, when t ≥ 5τ and He(t) is less than 1% above its minimum value. The leak rate is therefore where Rl is given in L/min and Hef in ppm. The size of the He leak is estimated on the next slide.

Estimated Helium Leak Needed to Produce Equilibrium Concentration of ~150 ppm Using model 3, we can estimate the He leak rate required to have a 150 ppm equilibrium background of He in hall C: Plugging in relevant values gives us We believe ~8000 L/day of Helium are leaking in Hall C. The visible leak at the HMS Q2 cryocan seems to account for only a small fraction. We wonder whether Q1 and Q3 may have large but non-obvious leaks.

Implications of ~150 ppm Helium Background for PMT Lifetime Quartz window PMT lifetime is arguably 10 years at 5 ppm of He consistent with observed failures of S2Q tubes consistent with observed failure of HMS 5” aerogel tubes (but not the 2” hodo tubes, Dr. Malace noted) Prediction for the new UV glass PMTs: To minimize mileage on the UV glass PMTs, we need to dramatically reduce the He bkg in Hall C in the next few months.

Summary We have confirmed the existence of Helium levels which, if sustained, would ruin Quartz PMTs in less than a year. Present levels are high enough to ruin UV glass PMTs in significantly less than a decade. Noticeable after-pulsing will begin almost right away. Walt Akers and the Plant Group have confirmed the fresh air flow into Hall C is nominal, so the source is a substantial leak. Neither hall A or D nor the accelerator has such high helium levels. We estimate that the total leak rate into Hall C is roughly 8000 STP liters/day. (or about 2 gallons of Lhe/day) As a by-product of these studies, we determined a 5τ (0.7%) rule-of-thumb for how long normal fresh air flow will take to remove a Helium “burp” in Hall C: about 60 hours.

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Tau Calculation The fresh air comes into the hall at 1300 ft3/min (I’ll call this Rr for “rate of removal”), which “pushes out” the dirty hall air at the same rate. So the instantaneous rate at which He leaves the hall is this rate of hall air exchange times the current proportion of the hall air that is He. This proportion can be expressed several ways, but here I’ll use the current volume of He in the hall divided by the total volume of the hall. So we can write our ODE as With Rr having units of volume/time (tau will be in whatever time units chosen here) and Vhall having units of volume. The units of He(t) and dHe/dt don’t matter, but they should be consistent. (★) from slide 6 is then a solution to this ODE if Using the values from Walt Akers’ tech note, Somewhat surprisingly, this is the same value as “T” from the linear model.