The meeting was mostly focused on the reharsal of the presentation of Antonio for TWEPP.

The presentation was in a preliminary/draft status.

A new reharsal will be held next week and BI will be invitated, but in case it would be not possible for the BPM or BLM team to aprticipate slides will be sent to the BRATOL community.

 

During the presentation one of the open questions from previous meetings was answered: the sum of all the possible effects inducing wavelenght a wavelenght shift will not bring the TOSAs out of the MUX acceptance window for any of the crntral frequencies.

It was re-stated that for acceptance of the components it is important to have an estimate of the expected flux  <= action on Christos for the SPS BLM

Antonio tested the CTTx in a climatic chamber at 60 degrees, current operating conditions of the VTRx in the SPS in closed boxex (system used as reference for worse case scenario). The transmitters in those conditions were measured at 70 degrees, a temperature that might impact their reliability but at which the work. Andrea stated that 60 degrees is the absolute maximum and to be considered  in case of no ventilation/ventilation failure for the LHC BPM system. Christos comented that for the BLM the alarm is at 55 degrees and a second one is triggered at 65 degrees but neither is ever triggered.

 

The expected expenses/orders expected to be commited for this year will be provided by Antonio with details on which BC the orders will be charged.

 

Andrea asked about the status of the refurbishment of the missing BPM's VTRx from the previous production. After some exchanges Jan confirmed that it could be possible to find a way to have at least 40 pieces refurbished.

Due to an apparent confusion on this topic, Manoel and Andrea traced back after the meeting the historic of the issue via email exchanges with Jan and Lauri. A summary is below:

 

The BPM team will not need all the missing 70 VTRx from their stock: 40 is the very minimum required to have a sufficient spare stock for the operational systems using those devices.