Thermo-Mechanical Emission and Detection of Ballistic Quasi-Particles in 3He-B at Low Temperatures: A Quasi-Particle Spectrometer

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Abstract

A filamentary wire resonator will generate quasi-particles in 3He-B when driven beyond a critical velocity. By using such a resonator as a source of quasi-particles and a second wire resonator as a quasi-particle detector, we have been able to emit and detect a ballistic quasi-particle beam over a distance of 3 mm in 3He-B at temperatures below 0.3 Tc. From the preliminary experiment the momentum of the quasi-particle beam can be measured and a direct (but as yet very approximate) measurement made of the quasi-particle mean free path.

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10.1209/0295-5075/2/7/006