@article{6731205fb21341258b764b6a9d934869,
title = "Centralized design and production of the ultra-high vacuum and laser-stabilization systems for the AION ultra-cold strontium laboratories",
abstract = "This paper outlines the centralized design and production of the ultra-high-vacuum sidearm and laser-stabilization systems for the AION Ultra-Cold Strontium Laboratories. Commissioning data on the residual gas and steady-state pressures in the sidearm chambers, on magnetic field quality, on laser stabilization, and on the loading rate for the 3D magneto-optical trap are presented. Streamlining the design and production of the sidearm and laser stabilization systems enabled the AION Collaboration to build and equip in parallel five state-of-the-art Ultra-Cold Strontium Laboratories within 24 months by leveraging key expertise in the collaboration. This approach could serve as a model for the development and construction of other cold atom experiments, such as atomic clock experiments and neutral atom quantum computing systems, by establishing dedicated design and production units at national laboratories.",
author = "Christopher McCabe and Leonardo Badurina and Ankit Beniwal and Diego Blas and John Carlton and John Ellis",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported by UKRI through its Quantum Technology for Fundamental Physics programme, via the following grants from EPSRC and STFC in the framework of the AION Consortium: ST/T006536/1 and ST/W006448/1 to the University of Birmingham; ST/T006579/1, ST/W006200/1, and ST/X004864/1 to the University of Cambridge; ST/T007001/1 to the University of Liverpool; ST/T006994/1 and ST/W006332/1 to Imperial College London; ST/T00679X/1 to King's College London; ST/T006633/1 to the University of Oxford; and ST/T006358/1 and ST/W006510/1 to the STFC Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory. L.B. acknowledges the support from the STFC Grant No. ST/T506199/1. D.B. was supported by a “Ayuda Beatriz Galindo Senior” Grant from the Spanish Ministerio de Universidades (No. BG20/00228). I.F.A.E. was partially funded by the CERCA program of the Generalitat de Catalunya. J.M. acknowledges the support from the University of Cambridge Isaac Newton Trust. J.S. acknowledges the support from the Rhodes Trust. The Cambridge team thanks X. Su and M. Zeuner for support in earlier stages of this project. The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory team thanks S. Canfer, B. Green, S. Greenwood, P. Jeffery, D. Tallentire, and J. Tarrant for their valuable input and contributions to the design process of the assemblies and during the building of the sidearms. For the purpose of open access, the authors have applied for a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2024 Author(s).",
year = "2024",
month = mar,
day = "14",
doi = "10.1116/5.0172731",
language = "English",
volume = "6",
journal = "AVS Quantum Science",
number = "1",
}