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mwas - 9:45 Wednesday 21 August 2024 (64981) Print this report
Lock acquisition issues due to high B1s power since Aug 13

The issue with high B1s power during the lock acquisition has returned (from OMC shutter open to when SR becomes misaligned). Previously it was due the displacement of the WI CO2 in the horizontal direction during the recovery after the July installation work https://logbook.virgo-gw.eu/virgo/?r=64865.

Figure 1 After the maintenance of Aug 13 the mean power on B1s is again at ~40mW instead of ~25mW. The safety threshold based on B1s is at 45mW, which can be reached due to fluctuations and cause an unlock.

Figure 2. There was a small change (~3%) in the NI CO2 power during the maintenance. This could be a cause, but I am not a convinced of that.

The bigger issue is that the B1s and B1p power do not agree. And it remains unclear why the two see different power fluctuations.

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mwas - 13:16 Wednesday 21 August 2024 (64984) Print this report

The issue is actually visible earlier on in CARM NULL 1F, with a mis-balance of 56MHz sidebands on B1p and a higher 12MHz mag on B1p.

Figure 1 shows the situation from Aug 10, before the mainteance with a factor 3 in power between B1p 56MHz  USB and LSB, and B1p 12MHz mag at ~4uW when the OMC shutter opens (B1s goes from zero to a few tens of mW).

Figure 2 shows the situation after the maintenance of Aug 13, the B1p 56MHz USB/LSB ratio has increased to factor ~6, and B1p 12MHz mag to ~10uW.

A similar issue was present during the horizontal shift of WI DAS

Figure 3 shows when the WI DAS was shifted horizontally which created too much power on B1s, the B1p 56MHz USB/LSB has a ratio of ~4, and B1p 12MHz mag is ~6uW

Figure 4 shows after the WI DAS 1.5cm horizontal shift was reverted, the B1p 56MHz USB/LSB ratio has decreased to ~3, and B1p 12MHz mag is ~4uW

All of these cases are much worse than before the July installation.

Figure 5 and 6 shows two examples. The B1p 56MHz USB/LSB ratio was around ~1.5, and the B1p 12MHz mag ~2uW.

Last year we already had issue with lock acquistiion to DC read-out when B1p 12MHz mag was large (I remember we couldn't lock when it was above ~5uW), and the B1p 56MHz LSB/USB powers misbalanced. A longitudinal offset on MICH can create a misbalance of 56MHz sidebands on B1p. And sometimes last year, but not always, adding a MICH offset in CARM NULL 1F was able to compensate for this misbalance.

 

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