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Sunday 2016, 18 (Sunday)

Bad day: the 3He pump exploded! It was most probably caused by an overpressure due to a blocked oil filter. We don't know how much 3He we lost, we're working hard to try to clean the He gas and circuitry from possible air contamination. At best the cool down is delayed by few days. At worst the run is cancelled.

Finish mounting NIKA2 back in place. Everything went fine and smoothly, without problem.
Start leak tests.
Zemax simulations done. Ray tracing figures look scary, but it's the PSF that matters:
- For the defect on the 1K lens: ~1/3 of the image surface is affected (top side); extra aberrations appear in the side lobes at ~10^-2 level, the beam peak decreases by up to 6%, the encircled energy at the 1st dark ring (-13dB level of Gaussian fit) decreases by up to 5% <=> the benefit of the corrugations AR effect is cancelled out for those pixels. It seems acceptable since most of the image is not or negligibly affected; we'll see on the sky with beam maps.
- For the defect on the 2 100mK lenses: 80% of the image is affected (red cross shape); extra aberrations appear in the side lobes at ~5x10^-3 level, the beam peak decreases by up to 4.5%, the encircled energy at the 1st dark ring (-13dB level of Gaussian fit) decreases by ~3.7% <=> a significant fraction of the benefit of the corrugations AR effect is cancelled out, but not all. It seems acceptable.

Arrival at the telescope of Samuel.
Unload truck dismount NIKA2 nose, roll NIKA2 body it in the corridor.
Dismount NIKA2 body, up to the cold stage optics.
Change the 1K lens in the corridor: remove the smooth one, place the corrugated one. See a small defect that hadn't been seen before on a section of the new corrugated lens: groove ~5mm wide, ~0.1-0.3mm deep, ~5-7cm long. Probably acceptable; decide to keep the lens, Samuel will simulate the effect with Zemax.
Change the 100mK lenses in the servo room (floor below the receiver cabin). Here also a small known defect on 2 of the 5 lenses: ridge ~0.5mm wide, ~0.3mm high, along 2 perpendicular diameters. Before coming Samuel estimated with a simplified simulation it was acceptable, he will simulate more accurately the defect.
Change the 2mm array: replace the 1020 KIDs array with the new 616 KIDs array.
Change the dichroic.
Start mounting again everything together.

Arrival at the telescope of Johannes, then Alessandro, Martino and Aurelien with the truck.