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BPM_2 Calibration of the BPM vertical position 12/14/05

The vertical calibration of the BPM appears to change from month to month.   The calibration determined in this study was:


   
September 04
           LAB_y [cm] = (0.0354 cm) + 1.0 * (BPM_y[cm])
    December 04
           LAB_y [cm] = (-0.0468 cm) + 1.0 * (BPM_y[cm])

where,
        
BPM_y[cm] =([bpmay]+327.15*([bpmby]-[bpmay])/(327.15-231.46))
and the bpm values were taken from the raw entries in the epics scaler files.  The bpm values were divided by 10.0 to convert from mm to cm.

Plots used to determine the vertical BPM's

Tables of BPM values

The beam vertical position was determined using hsxptar using
       
HMS_vert(up) [cm] = - (mean hsxptar) *1000. / -1.73 /10.0,
where (mean hsxptar) is the mean of the peak from the central sieve hole.  The factor of 1000. converts rad to mrad.  The factor of -1.73 is Henk's conversion factor.  The factor of 10.0 is to convert from mm to cm. 

The cuts used were:
hcer_npe>2.
abs(hsyptar)<0.03
abs(hsxptar)<0.04
abs(hsdelta)<5.0

The vertical position determined using the HMS for run 50130 was checked against Dave's value.  His result was y_beam = -0.12mm.  My result was  0.096 +- 0.032 mm, where the error is 1 std deviation of the mean.  When Dave projected the BPM to the target for this run, he obtained -0.43mm, I obtained -0.48mm.

A possible reason for the two points in the bottom right corner are that they are from the December '04 running period.  The remaining data points are from Sept '04.



The two running periods were separated in the plots below and the slope was constrained to 1.0