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Message ID: 53     Entry time: Tue Sep 3 17:51:04 2019
 Author: Ronic Chiche 
 Status: Fixed 
 Type: issue 
 Category: mechanics | lasers and optics | vacuum 
 Location: Optical room 
 Title: Vessel cleanliness 

looking in the vessel of the FP cavity using a UV lamp shows a lot of dust... more dust than outside the cavity !!!

here is picture where one can see a cleaned zone using a finger (with gloves).

question : where does come from this dust ?

2 possibilities :

- large and small belows which could trap the dust and release it during the pumping process

- ionic pumps could release some clusters when they are working.

we plan to clean as effectively as possible the inner surfaces, to close bellows, make woking ion pumps to check if it released again some dust.

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