We see a strange behavior of the anode signal when we bunch the ion beam and electron cooler is on.

peak structure... ---> we play now with the bunching amplitude 

200mV
150mV
100mV ---> Peaks higher?

see attached file

There will be a short break (2 hours) this afternoon. Between 13:30 and 15:30. 
The so-calles "super lense" in the UNILAC needs to be cleaned (rinsed). 
After that operation should continue as usual. 

The operators are still busy extracting the beam from the SIS18 towards the ESR and injecting it into the ESR. 

Because the C3+ part of the ion beam is properly bunched, it is no longer so sensitive to the drifts caused by the e-cooler. 
In the O4+ part of the ion beam these drifts can still be seen. 

The ion beam moves around, pretty arbitrary. See picture. 
ESR crew believes that it is not due to fluctuations in the HV of the E-Cooler. 

looks like the E-Cooler is responsible for this. If one turns off the electron current, the beam stays stable. 
M.Steck is informed.

> The ion beam moves around, pretty arbitrary. See picture. 
> ESR crew believes that it is not due to fluctuations in the HV of the E-Cooler. 

The power in the ESR is off. 
(also on the gas-target area on top of ESR)
Electrical engineers are trying to find and fix the problem. 

Schottky frequency (189th harmonic) = 244.033662 MHz

revolution frequency  frev = 1.2911834 MHz

bunching frequency h=2  --> fb = 2.582367 MHz
bunching frequency h=10  --> fb = 12.911834 MHz

During the night shift we saw several rises of the fluorescence (see another entry) and also energetic overlap in coasting beam modus.
Here the laser wavelength was stabilized @ 1028,967nm and electron cooler was switched off because of some fluctuations which we saw in the schottky.
Left part of the schottky picture shows the c3+ beam, the right part is the o4+ contamination.

I just heard that the ESR vacuum is quite bad. 
There was a small vacuum problem a while ago, it was sealed, but apparently the pressure is not as low as usual.

Markus Steck said that the beam lifetime is only 15 - 20 seconds !!! 

This will seriously complicate some of our test experiments :( 

frev = 1,2912735 MHz

25,82556 MHz
h = 20

Rate was very low: ~ 100Hz
Adjusted Walk level and Threshold, new rate: 5kHz
Additionally, parameters of the detector were varied for optimization but were returned to default afterwards.

In this shift a number of successful Schottky measurements were done:
With fixed laser wavelength, while varying the wavelength, with different bunching and more (see logfile 1 for more info: line 53 to at least 107).
The detector software sometimes files to change the current of the power supplies, if this happens a simple restart of the GUI fixes the problem.
Once in this shift the Mesytek in the laser lab turned itself (?) off and the background rate increased. Hopefully this was a single event.

Ion frequency shifts with laser, both manually and scanned, without bunches: successful
Bunching with 7 and 20 bunches: successful
Tried laser scans with bunches: unsuccessful
Manual laser scans with bunches: successful

carbon main vi - kopie is now in operation

here, in keysight.vi the input settings for the new impedence for the multimeter are now hopefully correct --> THIS SHOULD BE CHECKED IF THE RING IS OPEN