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stuart.aston@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:21, Tuesday 29 July 2014 - last comment - 22:33, Tuesday 29 July 2014(13047)
ETMX L2 (PUM) UL channel excess sensor noise
During close-out work on the ETMX chamber, and while waiting for particle counts to drop, I took power spectra up to 50 Hz for both ETMX (QUAD) and TMSX (TMTS) suspensions (n.b. suspensions were still locked).

I observed a higher noise floor, of almost an order of magnitude, for the ETMX L2 (PUM) UL sensor channel (see ETMX_Original.png below).

To help determine if the source of the excess noise resides in-chamber or with the electronics chain I swapped the ETMX L1 and L2 stage in-air field cables at the Satellite Box (H1:SUS_ETMX-17 and H1:SUS_ETMX-17) and re-took the power spectra (see ETMX_Swapped.png below). It can be seen that the excess noise now moves from the L2 stage to L1, thus indicating that the source of the excess noise is down-stream i.e. with the field-cables or in-chamber.

Ideally, the above test should be repeated at on the air side on the vacuum feed-through to eliminate the field cable. However, most likely, this is an in-chamber AOSEM cabling/connector issue.
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stuart.aston@LIGO.ORG - 22:33, Tuesday 29 July 2014 (13060)
Searching through acceptance measurements that were taken for ETMX, it would appear that the excess noise exhibited by the L2 UL channel has previously been reported, and is therefore not a 'new' development since opening the chamber (see LHO aLOG entry 9608).