The ATLAS Beam Condition Monitor Commissioning

The ATLAS Beam Condition Monitor (BCM) based on radiation hard pCVD diamond sensors and event-by-event measurements of environment close to interaction point (z=±184 cm, r=5.5 cm) has been installed in the Pixel detector since early 2008 and together with the Pixel detector in the ATLAS cavern since June 2008. The sensors and front end electronics were shown to withstand 50 Mrad and 1015 particles/cm2 expected in LHC lifetime. Recently the full readout chain, partly made of radiation tolerant electronics, still inside of the ATLAS spectrometer and partly in the electronics room, was completed and the system was operated in time of the first LHC single beams and is ready now for the first collisions which will follow after the LHC repair.