Week 40 - Parallel MD - PS

Ecloud studies with LHC beams

G. Iadarola

25 ns and 50 ns MD cycles were setup (we have also dedicated PSB users). Basic functionalities of ecloud detectors in SS98 and MU98 were checked. After cable swap during access, the shielded pickup in SS98 is functional (but more noisy than before LS1), new shielded pickup in MU98 shows a strong beam induced signal, most likely not related to ecloud, to be further investigated. First results from photon detector look quite encouraging; we would like to continue with this next week. Up to now we only saved screenshots, the next step will be to setup proper data logging.