Active cooling control of the CLEO detector using a hydrocarbon coolant farm

• Main Authors: Warburton, A, Arndt, K, Bebek, C, Cherwinka, J, Cinabro, D, Fast, J, Gittelman, B, Lee, Seung J, McGee, S, Palmer, M, Perera, L, Smith, A, Tournear, D, Ward, C
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 12.09.2001
• Subjects: Physics - High Energy Physics - Experiment; Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ex/0109015

Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A488 (2002) 451-465 We describe a novel approach to particle-detector cooling in which a modular farm of active coolant-control platforms provides independent and regulated heat removal from four recently upgraded subsystems of the CLEO detector: the ring-imaging Cherenkov detector, the drift chamber, the silicon vertex detector, and the beryllium beam pipe. We report on several aspects of the system: the suitability of using the aliphatic-hydrocarbon solvent PF(TM)-200IG as a heat-transfer fluid, the sensor elements and the mechanical design of the farm platforms, a control system that is founded upon a commercial programmable logic controller employed in industrial process-control applications, and a diagnostic system based on virtual instrumentation. We summarize the system's performance and point out the potential application of the design to future high-energy physics apparatus.