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After the installation of the beam-pipe an action will be required to achieve the required end pressure of the beam-pipe. It is expected that with the proposed AISI 441 material the end pressure will be dominated by the water partial pressure.
The common method of reducing the partial pressure of water is a thermal bake-out. Thermal bake-out for the Einstein telescope will be time and labor/energy intensive.
Within the Dutch ET4 business project, TNO is investigating an alternative way for reducing the water partial pressure by applying low pressure plasma generated inside the tubes. The project focuses on technical feasibility.
In this poster will discuss the setup used for the experiment, and the first findings of the ongoing experiments.