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melo, derossi, gosselin - 18:24 Tuesday 07 May 2024 (64204) Print this report
Mismatch measurements

This afternoon we performed some measurements to verify the mismatch towards the arms. The last measurement done is reported in #63374.

First, we performed the free swinging method, giving a kick on the end mirrors (with the dampers opened). The GPS of the kick (we gave the kick simultaneously for the West and North arms) is 14:17:00 UTC.

However, when analysing the data we could not find reasonable values of mismatch. We need to verify if there is any problem with the Matlab code to debug, or there was something wrong with the measurements. In Fig. 1 we can see the time window of the free swinging mirrors. To be noted that the west arm starts swinging after roughly 15 seconds with respect to the North Arm. On Fig.2 we can see the surposed flashs of B7 and B8.

Then, we perform the measurements with the Green Scan. The GPS in this case 14:30:43 UTC (Fig 3). Figs 4 and 5 show the scans of the TEM 00 mode and TEM 02 mode respectively. In this case, for the north arm we found 3.3% and 1.4% for the west arm, as shown in Fig. 6.

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melo, derossi, ruggi - 18:26 Wednesday 08 May 2024 (64213) Print this report

We did not manage to analyze the results of the free swinging mirrors with the kick measurement made yesterday (probably because they were not excited enough).

For this reason this afternoon we performed again this measurement, but we first opened the dampers, we manually put in down the ITF and then we applied the corrections (more than once, to keep the mirror excited).

The first kick was done at 15:51:36 UTC, and the data were analyzed 3 minutes later taking the peaks during 220s (so it cannot be defined "hot" itf measurement).

We obtained 2% mismatch for the north and 1,6% for the west (see plots)

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