Observations of electron cloud phenomena at PETRA III

PETRA III is a third generation synchrotron radiation facility at DESY, which is presently operated with positron beams. Regular user operation started in mid 2010 after a commissioning phase which began in April 2009. The design current of 100 mA has been achieved but with different number of bunches and bunch to bunch distances than originally foreseen since a strong vertical emittance growth was observed for the design bunch filling pattern with 960 bunches. During machine studies different bunch filling patterns have been tested. In 2012 two scrubbing runs with 480 bunches and a bunch to bunch spacing of 16 ns have been done. The recent measurements indicate that the scrubbing runs have mitigated the emittance growth. Furthermore conditioning effects have been observed during the user runs in 2011. The results from the measured emittances and tune spectra are reported.