On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com>
wrote:

In other words excess heat produces significantly more than the background
> from diffusion, but much less than the atmospheric background.
>

For sure.  It is not the absolute magnitude of the signal that matters (in
this case 4He), it is the sensitivity of the measuring instrument.  The way
the sensitivity is determined is through calibration runs.

Eric

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