NuMI Primary Beam Instrumentation

Timing Documentation (from Gianni Tassotto) (ppt)
Setting up BPM's for Initial Commissioning
(from Bob Webber and Peter Prieto) (ppt)

Kinds of Instrumentation for NuMI Primary Beamline

Toroid Intensity Monitors
- Toroid calibration from Aisha Ibrahim
  Beams Document 1507-v1 (ppt)
Beam Position Monitors
- Main Injector BPM Review Documentation
  (February 2003) (pdf) , (doc)
- Brajesh Choudhary's Talk at MI BPM Review
  (also February 2003) (pdf) , (ppt)
  These links have lots of good pictures of
  NuMI and MI BPM's and plots of their performance
Beam Profile Monitors
- link to University of Texas Ti Foil Profile Monitors
- Beam Size at Profile Monitors (from Peter Lucas)
  Spread Sheet(xls),
  calculated using 25pi 95% emittance and 5E-4 sigma_p/p.
Beam Loss Monitors: Data from Fred Krueger
Total Loss Monitors

Instrumentation Personnel (11/10/04)

MSWORD format ,
ps format
Main Injector Intensity Monitor specs (from A.Godley) (MSWORD)

January 22 2004: Peter Prieto's talk on BPM electronics design (MSWORD)
February 19, 2004: Alberto Marchionni's presentation on Main Injector Instumentation for NuMI: (ppt)
April 15, 2004:
- Andrew Godley: Specifications for Main Injector Instensity Integrator (MSWORD)
- Sacha Kopp: SEM status and results from MiniBooNE beamline tests (pdf) (ppt)
April 22, 2004:
- Gianni Tassotto's trip to the Beam Loss Monitor Vendor and future plans: (doc)
- Gianni Tassotto's calculations on Yield Strengh for Ag-plated W wire: (doc)
April 29, 2004: Sacha Kopp's update on foil SEM position resolution calculations,
and discussion of material to be presented at
Beam Instrumentation workshop in Oak Ridge paper (doc), poster (ppt)
May 20, 2004
- Report from Dan Schoo on Long Loss Monitors and Sealed Units (doc)
- Dan also showed: Plateau Curves for sealed units (new and rebuilt)
- Report from Sacha Kopp on Profile Monitors:
  Saga of and plan for recovery from Motion Actuator Failure (ppt)
June 10, 2004
- Report from Peter Prieto on remaining BPM work to be done (doc)
June 17, 2004
- BLM plateau curves from Dan Schoo a (xls) b (xls) c (xls) d (xls) e (xls)
- email and photos from Fred Krueger discussing concerns with BLM's (html)
August 19, 2004
- Main Injector BPM Measurements with NuMI Electronics: Talk by Vickie Frohne (ppt)
August 26, 2004:
- Minutes courtesy of Peter Lucas (doc)
- Graphs on BLM Sample and Hold Performance from Marv Olson
September 2, 2004
- Closed Orbit Verifier Design Document (sent by Bob Webber, based on specifications document Beams-doc-1323) (doc)
  Beams-Doc-1323 from database
- BLM Plateau Curves ( log and linear scale, both PDF documents)
- Peter Prieto's Modifications to Transition Module to fix noise problem in BPM's (msword)
September 15, 2004
- Bob Webber's writeup of NuMI/ MI BPM Electronics comparison AD Document 1322 (pdf)
November 10, 2004
- Gianni's description of timing (everything but BPM timing) (ppt)
March 7, 2005
- Doug Jensen's plots showing toroid measurements and comparisons of TOR101 and TORTGT (ps)
March 18, 2005
- Doug Jensen's plots of the IBEAM, BEAM, NuMI toroids, and long loss monitors (ps)
March 24, 2005
- Doug Jensen's discussion of TOR101 and TORTGT (ps)
- Debbie's description of BPM and profile monitor offsets and the bpm/pm comparisons with beam (ppt)

Primary Beam Systems Chapter of the NuMI Technical Design Handbook (pdf) , (doc)
pages 13-17 have descriptions of the primary beam instrumentation
Design Specifications Chapter of the NuMI Technical Design Handbook (pdf) , (doc)
(page 2 has a table of original specifications for the instrumentation,
which have been updated to the document described above)

Instrumentation Personnel (11/10/04)
Gianni Tassotto's talk on instrumentation timing (11/10/04) (ppt)
BPM Calibration (AD document Database)
BPM Documentation by Peter Prieto (also available on the AD Documents Database)
- NuMI BPM Measurements and DDC Setup Mode (doc)
- Transition Module Calibration Procedure (doc)
- Calibration Board Test Procedure (doc)
- BPM Pre-Installation Preparation (doc)
- Transition Module Description and Test Procedure (doc)
- BPM Sign Convention and Signal Path (doc)
Photo Gallery (this takes awhile to download so please be patient)
Controls Requirements (author: Bob Ducar) (MS Excel)
Rack & Crate Space (author: Bob Ducar) ( MS Excel)
Talk by Brajesh Choudhary on BPM's at South Carolina MINOS Meeting April 2003

Primary Beam Instrumentation

Beam Commissioning Documents (12/03/04)

Kinds of Instrumentation for NuMI Primary Beamline

Instrumentation Personnel (11/10/04)

Instrumentation Specifications Document

Slides from Instumentation Meetings (when available)

Relevant NuMI Technical Design Handbook Chapters

Review Links

Other Links