Vibration Characteristics of a Continuously Rotating Superconducting Magnetic Bearing and Potential Influence to TES and SQUID

Abstract

We measured the vibration of a prototype superconducting magnetic bearing (SMB) operating at liquid nitrogen temperature. This prototype system was designed as a breadboard model for LiteBIRD low-frequency telescope (LFT) polarization modulator unit. We set an upper limit of the vibration amplitude at 36 µm at the rotational synchronous frequency. During the rotation, the amplitude of the magnetic field produced varies. From this setup, we compute the static and AC amplitude of the magnetic fields produced by the SMB magnet at the location of the LFT focal plane as 0.24 G and 3 × 10 −5 G, respectively. From the AC amplitude, we compute TES critical temperature variation of 7 × 10 −8 K and fractional change of the SQUID flux is δ Φ/Φ 0 | ac = 3.1 × 10 −5 . The mechanical vibration can be also estimated to be 3.6 × 10 −2 N at the rotation mechanism location.

Testbed preparation of a small prototype polarization modulator for LiteBIRD low-frequency telescope

“…magnetic and EMI interferences and temperature of the AHWP itself, that we cannot investigate in this setup. 12,13 Therefore, the current setup is helpful in the hardware preparation and should also help disentangle some of the effects in future data with the TES and its readout system.…”