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Phase probes are a crucial diagnostic tool for pulsed particle beams of linear accelerators. In this contribution we present a simple, but very effective analysis procedure which has been established in various applications during commissioning campaigns of injector linacs for medical facilities. These injectors consist of a 400 keV/u radio-frequency quadrupole followed by a 7 MeV/u inter-digital drift tube linac, both operating at 216.8 MHz. At GSI, the new analysis was recently applied at the HITRAP decelerator, also with promising results. The data analysis exploits the periodic nature of sampling process and bunch signal improving the detector sensitivity and achieving an effective resolution of < 10 ps. If the macro-pulse is sufficiently long, the quality of the data can be improved further by a statistical average of subsequent data blocks acquired within one single macro-pulse. The latter is important for experiments with low beam intensity and low repetition rate like HITRAP where averaging over many macro-pulses is cumbersome.
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