Cavity BPM systems work
Aim to provide long term stable BPM system operating at the best possible
resolution.
- Hardware measurements (related to BPM design, systematics etc)
- Operations (beam based measurements)
- First pulse operation
Hardware measurements
- Electronics gain (weekend measurement)
- Calibration tone (continuous measurement)
- Electronics noise figure (best possible resolution)
- Cavity coupling factor
Online measurements and tests
- Individual BPM calibrations
- Dynamic range, coupling strength (requires electronics gain), linearity
- Cross coupling (x-y)
- Resolution (simple, jitter removed)
- Tone calibration system
- Temperature monitoring system
First pulse operation (still useful test for ILC)
- Measure precisely phase of each signal cable
- Local oscillator phase
- Phase difference for each BPM due to beam propagation