3He MELTING PRESSURE TEMPERATURE SCALE.

W. P. Halperin*, C. N. Archie, R. C. Richardson, F. B. Rasmussen

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Abstract

The latent heat for solidification of **3He has been measured along the **3He melting curve between 23 and 1 mK. A temperature scale is established which depends only on measurements of heat, pressure and volume, and on the condition that the entropy of solid **3He approaches R ln 2 at high temperatures. The A feature of the melting curve which suggests itself as a thermometric fixed point is found to be T//A equals 2. 75 plus or minus 0. 11 mK. The agreement between this value and independent measurements of T//A, based on nuclear or electronic paramagnetism, Johnson noise thermometry or on properties of liquid **3He, is briefly discussed.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)194-197
Number of pages4
Journal[No source information available]
StatePublished - Jan 1 1976

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Engineering

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