December 21, 2011 Book section Open Access

PRESS-MAG-O: status of the commissioning and of the associated R&D

A. Puri; A. Marcelli; M. Cestelli Guidi; P. Postorino; E. Pace; A. De Sio; L. Gambicorti; G. Della Ventura; A. Notargiacomo; D. Di Gioacchino

PRESS-MAG-O is a unique innovative apparatus under commissioning at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), designed to perform experiments on materials under extreme conditions. The instrument will allow concurrent magnetic and spectroscopic experiments under high pressure and high DC magnetic field in a wide temperature range. A highly sensitive SQUID gradiometer designed to fit inside a diamagnetic DAC cell and cooled inside the cryostat hosting a 8 T superconducting magnet is the heart of the instrument. The cryostat has been designed with four access ports two of them equipped with special windows and optical lenses to focus and collect radiation down to the IR region to perform spectroscopic experiments on the sample loaded in the DAC. In this report we summarize the technical characteristics of the system and the status of test and commissioning at the end of 2011.