Aloha - Optics studies by combined kick-response and dispersion fits.

The Aloha software is based on a JAVA reimplementation of the former LOCO response fitting code [1]. The project was initiated in order to have a tool that is available online in the control room to quickly analyze kick response data during the LHC injection tests and startup. Later it was extended to handle dispersion data as another source for fit-constraints and to import other input data as for example alignment and trim-values. It was already successfully used to determine monitor- an corrector-gains as well as identifying various error sources during the LHC injection tests. This note describes the principles used by Aloha as well as some implementation details of this software package.