Final report of key comparison CCM.P-K3 absolute pressure measurements in gas from 3E-6 Pa to 9E-4 Pa

Published

March 31, 2010

Author(s)

Douglas A. Olson, Patrick J. Abbott, Karl Jousten, Fiona J. Redgrave, Pardeep Mohan, S S. Hong

Abstract

This report describes a CCM key comparison of absolute pressure at five National Metrology Institutes (NMIs) that was carried out from August 1998 to May 2002. The goal of the key comparison was to determine the degree of equivalence at pressures in the range of 3E-6 Pa to 9E-4 Pa. The primary standards were dynamic expansion standards at four of the NMIs and a series expansion standard at the fifth NMI. The transfer standard package consisted of two spinning rotor gauges (SRGs) and three Bayard-Alpert ionization gauges. Due to equipment malfunctions, only one of the ionization gauges was calibrated by all of the participants. The SRG measurements were used to compare NMIs at 9E-4 Pa and to normalize the ionization gauge results at that same pressure. The ionization gauge measurements were used to compare NMIs at the lower pressures. The degrees of equivalence of the NMI standards were determined in two ways: deviations from the key comparison reference value (KCRV), and pairwise differences between those deviations. Four of the NMIs show equivalence to the KCRV and each other over the full range of pressures relative to the expanded uncertainties of the comparisons at the k=2 level. One NMI was equivalent to the KCRV at 3E-6 Pa only, and showed lack of equivalence to one or more NMIs in the range of 9E-6 Pa to 9E-4 Pa.

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Metrologia

Volume

47

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Journals

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Keywords

degrees of equivalence, dynamic expansion, high vacuum, ionization gauge, key comparison, key comparison reference value, pressure, series expansion, spinning rotor gauge, vacuum

Citation

Olson, D. , Abbott, P. , Jousten, K. , Redgrave, F. , Mohan, P. and Hong, S. (2010), Final report of key comparison CCM.P-K3 absolute pressure measurements in gas from 3E-6 Pa to 9E-4 Pa, Metrologia, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=904758 (Accessed November 21, 2024)