Author: Favier, M.
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MOPD06 Capabilities and Performance of the LHC Schottky Monitors 44
 
  • M. Favier, T.B. Bogey, F. Caspers, O.R. Jones
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • J. Cai, E.S.M. McCrory, R.J. Pasquinelli
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
  • A. Jansson
    ESS, Lund, Sweden
 
  The LHC Schottky system has been under commissioning since summer 2010. This non destructive observation relies on a slotted waveguide structure resonating at 4.8GHz. Four monitors, one for each plane of the two counter-rotating LHC beams, are used to measure the transverse Schottky sidebands Electronic gating allows selective bunch-by-bunch measurements, while a triple down-mixing scheme combined with heavy filtering gives an instantaneous dynamic range of over 100dB within a 20kHz bandwidth. Observations of both proton and lead ion Schottky spectra will be discussed along with a comparison of predicted and measured performance.  
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