Commissioning and First Performance of the LHC Beam Instrumentation

This paper will outline the progress with LHC commissioning to date, detailing the performance achieved with all the main LHC beam instrumentation systems. It will include an overview of the beam loss system and its role in machine protection, along with that of the beam position system and its use for automatic orbit control. Results will be shown from the highly sensitive base band tune system as well as the bunch-bybunch and DC beam current transformer systems, the synchrotron light monitoring systems, the wire scanner system and OTR screens.