First Results from the LHC Beam Instrumentation Systems

During the 2008 LHC injection synchronisation tests and the subsequent days with circulating beam, the majority of the LHC beam instrumentation systems were capable of measuring their first beam parameters. This included the two large distributed systems, beam position and beam loss, as well as the scintillating and OTR screens, the fast and DC beam current transformers, the tune monitors and the wire scanners. The fast timing system was also extensively used to synchronise most of this instrumentation. This paper will comment on the results to date.