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Fiori, Tringali, Spinicelli, Pasqualetti - 21:29 Friday 28 November 2025 (68279) Print this report
Tapping Campaign in Central Building

This morning and in the afternoon (due to the ITF unlocks), a tapping campaign was performed in CEB. Specifically, tapping was applied on several flanges of each tower, on DET viewports, on SIB1 and SIB2 beam dumps, and on DET and INJ cryotrap vessels.

Only a few preliminary comments on what was observed during the tests (a complete analysis will follow)

SDB1 – South flange: Peak at 121 Hz and several additional lines.

Cryotrap – DET viewport (West side): peak at 315 Hz and various other frequencies

DET Cryotrap – Vessel: peaks above 400 Hz; clear peaks at 501 Hz and 843 Hz.

SR flange – East: peaks at 501 Hz and 840 Hz

SR flange – West: peak @ 120 Hz.

PR North flange (POP flange): peak at 730 Hz and minor lines around 93–105 Hz.

NI North flange: peak at 165 Hz, increasing and disappearing with delay  (~1 minute)

B1 viewport: Fluctuating line at 26.5 Hz, and peak at 66 Hz.

B1p Viewport: Strong broadband response: 115–120 Hz, 200 Hz, 322 Hz, and several additional lines.

Hartmann viewport: 66 Hz line shows slight breathing/modulation.

B5 viewport: responses above 400 Hz are more intense; additional lines at 101 Hz and 190 Hz.

EQB1 door: narrow peak at 951 Hz.

General observation: 
The 120 Hz line is persistently excited and fluctuating even without tapping, just by moving around the  SR -DET area.

Figures 1 and Fugure 2 show the spectrograms of hrec during the tappings performed in the morning and afternoon, respectively.

The time and the exact locations of each tapping are reported in detail in the attached file.


PS During the tappings in SIB2, we noticed a whistling noise caused by the compressed-air line (Figure 3). We informed Piernicola, who then contacted Antonio.

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Fiori, Tringali - 15:04 Wednesday 24 December 2025 (68426) Print this report

Here we illustrate some results of tappings in the central area. In the TABLE we list the most sensible locations found and frequency of the associated peaks. These data can be used also to produce projections: will be shown in a subsequent dedicated entry.

SDB1 chamber is the location with more associated peaks. Some of these peaks are shared with DET cryotrap, SR, and the minilinks, in particular the most sensitive location turns out to be the B5 minilink viewport.

A few distintive peaks are associated to PR and to SIB1.

Locations that seem essentially immune to tappings are NI, WI, BS, SDB2, SIB2, SPRB.

Figures 1-4 show peaks in hrec excited by tappings in the SDB1_SouthFlange, DT_cryotrap_vessel, SR_EastFlange, PR_NorthFlange, SIB1. Figures 5-9 show excitation recoded by accelerometers on these vacuum chambers.

Figures 10,11 show peaks in hrec excited by tappings on the minilinks and EQB1 chamber. Figures 12-14 show excitations recorded by accelerometers on these vacuum chambers (or closest chambers in the case of minilinks).

location peaks (Hz)
SDB1 south flange

118.5 (large with SideBands)  172.4, 189.7, 201.6, 202.8, 245.1, 258.7, 285.8, 287.1, 298, 335.6, 360.8, 380, 392.4, 426.7, 459.0(large), 611., 656.3, 690., 727.5(large), 763, 782.8(large), 1057, 1068, 1169, 1191, 1207, 1360

SDB1 west flange / cryotrap side all above and 60Hz
DT Cryotrap vessel

285.8, 459.0, 467.3, 502 (large), 517, 530.5, 545.4, 742.8, 782.8, 834.5, 952.4(large), 987

SR flange East smaller 501.4, 826.6, 952.4, 1068
SR flange West only small 502
BS East flange nothing
BS south flange nothing
PR north at POP flange

small 93, 104, 201.6, 727.5

PR south flange nothing
INJ Cryotrap vessel tiny 543
SIB1 North flange something around 543-550
PR North flange tiny 378, 380
link PR-BS tiny 378, 380
SIB1 West flange nothing 
NI North flange existing structure 166Hz fluctuates with delay wrt tappings 
WI West flange small 115 Hz
minilink B1 viewport (SDB2) small 66Hz
minilink B1 flange small 61, 66, 318, 460
minilink B1p viewport

98.0 and same as "SDB1 South flange" but overall most intense

minilink Harmann flange only small 66 Hz
minilink Hartmann viewport small 66, 390, 460, 502
minilink B5 flange 98.0 and several structures, similar to "SDB1 South flange" but more intense, particularly for peaks above 400Hz. Also 101 Hz.
EQB1 door small 502, 951 Hz
SPRB North flange nothing
SIB2 beam dump flange

nothing

SIB1 beam dump (at East flange) 26.2, 130(bump), 236(bump), 380.0(larger), 483.8

 

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fiori, tringali - 19:44 Tuesday 30 December 2025 (68432) Print this report

A set of plots illustrating for each tapping location the effect on hrec and on the accelerometer closest to the tapping location. Missed in previous entry: a location that produced a quite large effect in hrec was DT cryotrap viewport. 

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