Thermal architecture for the QUBIC cryogenic receiver
Creators: name: May, A. J.
name: Chapron, C.
name: Coppi, G.
name: D'Alessandro, G.
name: de Bernardis, P.
name: Masi, S.
name: Melhuish, S.
name: Piat, M.
name: Piccirillo, L.
name: Schillaci, A.
name: Thermeau, J. -P.
name: Ade, P.
name: Amico, G.
name: Auguste, D.
name: Aumont, J.
name: Banfi, S.
name: Barbara, G.
name: Battaglia, P.
name: Battistelli, E.
name: Bau, A.
name: Belier, B.
name: Bennett, D.
name: Berge, L.
name: Bernard, J. -Ph.
name: Bersanelli, M.
name: Bigot-Sazy, M. -A.
name: Bleurvacq, N.
name: Bonaparte, J.
name: Bonis, J.
name: Bordier, G.
name: Breelle, E.
name: Bunn, E.
name: Burke, D.
name: Buzi, D.
name: Buzzelli, A.
name: Cavaliere, F.
name: Chanial, P.
name: Charlassier, R.
name: Columbro, F.
name: Coppolecchia, A.
name: Couchot, F.
name: D'Agostino, R.
name: De Gasperis, G.
name: De Leo, M.
name: De Petris, M.
name: Di Donato, A.
name: Dumoulin, L.
name: Etchegoyen, A.
name: Fasciszewski, A.
name: Franceschet, C.
name: Lerena, M. M. Gamboa
name: Garcia, B.
name: Garrido, X.
name: Gaspard, M.
name: Gault, A.
name: Gayer, D.
name: Gervasi, M.
name: Giard, M.
name: Giraud-Heraud, Y.
name: Berisso, M. Gomez
name: Gonzalez, M.
name: Gradziel, M.
name: Grandsire, L.
name: Guerrard, E.
name: Hamilton, J. -Ch.
name: Harari, D.
name: Haynes, V.
name: Henrot-Versille, S.
name: Hoang, D. T.
name: Incardona, F.
name: Jules, E.
name: Kaplan, J.
name: Korotkov, A.
name: Kristukat, C.
name: Lamagna, L.
name: Loucatos, S.
name: Louis, T.
name: Lowitz, A.
name: Lukovic, V.
name: Luterstein, R.
name: Maffei, B.
name: Marnieros, S.
name: Mattei, A.
name: McCulloch, M. A.
name: Medina, M. C.
name: Mele, L.
name: Mennella, A.
name: Montier, L.
name: Mundo, L. M.
name: Murphy, J. A.
name: Murphy, J. D.
name: O'Sullivan, C.
name: Olivieri, E.
name: Paiella, A.
name: Pajot, F.
name: Passerini, A.
name: Pastoriza, H.
name: Pelosi, A.
name: Perbost, C.
name: Perdereau, O.
name: Pezzotta, F.
name: Piacentini, F.
name: Pisano, G.
name: Polenta, G.
name: Prele, D.
name: Puddu, R.
name: Rambaud, D.
name: Ringegni, P.
name: Romero, G. E.
name: Salatino, M.
name: Scoccola, C. G.
name: Scully, S.
name: Spinelli, S.
name: Stolpovskiy, M.
name: Suarez, F.
name: Tartari, A.
name: Timbie, P.
name: Torchinsky, S. A.
name: Tristram, M.
name: Truongcanh, V.
name: Tucker, C.
name: Tucker, G.
name: Vanneste, S.
name: Vigano, D.
name: Vittorio, N.
name: Voisin, F.
name: Watson, B.
name: Wicek, F.
name: Zannoni, M.
name: Zullo, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: QUBIC, the QU Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology, is a novel forthcoming instrument to measure the B-mode polarization anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background. The detection of the B-mode signal will be extremely challenging; QUBIC has been designed to address this with a novel approach, namely bolometric interferometry. The receiver cryostat is exceptionally large and cools complex optical and detector stages to 40 K, 4 K, 1 K and 350 mK using two pulse tube coolers, a novel 4He sorption cooler and a double-stage 3He/4He sorption cooler. We discuss the thermal and mechanical design of the cryostat, modelling and thermal analysis, and laboratory cryogenic testing.