I'm full of helium.
I'm full of helium. It feels good to be cold again. Sure is hot in Niihama. At least I didn't have to join in the softball game. My Goddard friends sent me this photo of Tom Bialas getting a good hit, but I have a feeling it was about the only one they got. It was way too hot for me to join in, so I'm glad I had to stay here cooling down (plus I don't have arms!). And I heard it was dangerous; my team had 3 injuries, which is the same as the number of runs they got. I think the Japanese team here at SHI had 11 runs. How embarrassing!
Anyway, back here in the clean room they've also put some neon in the neon tank, so now my helium will last a lot longer. Tomorrow they'll start pumping on the helium tank so we can get down to my operating temperature of 60 millikelvin. Then on Monday they'll actually start running the detectors for the first time since I got to Japan. Woo-hoo!
