Linac Beam Pulse statistics

Number of pulses per day over last 120 days

Average rate of beam production over last 120 days

Number of pulses lost in high energy half per day over last 120 days

Percent of pulses lost per day over last 120 days

Pulses delivered by Linac since records were first recorded

Same data as above summed up for 7 days ending on each Friday

All data as tab-delimited file

The top 50 days

Note the log scale on these plots. A "lost beam pulse" is defined to be a pulse that has less than half of the beam current out of the Linac than was put into the 805 MHz portion of the Linac.

On a good day without any Linac "studies" pulses, we will have on the order of 28000 stacking pulses. It is difficult (at this time) to determine how many of the rest of these pulses are going to MiniBOOne and how many are just studies pulses.

In 24 hours, there are 24(hours/day)*3600(seconds/hour)*15(pulses/second) (1,296,000) RF cycles in the Linac, each capable of delivering Linac beam.

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