Results from the SPS 1.7 GHz travelling wave schottky monitor

A 1.7 GHz waveguide Schottky detector system was recently built and installed in the SPS accelerator following the design of the detectors of the Fermilab Tevatron and Recycler accelerators. The waveguide detector is designed to measure the transverse and longitudinal Schottky signals of the accelerator at a frequency high enough to avoid coherent effects. This paper describes the first tests carried out with the Schottky detector using LHC type beams. The principal goal of these tests was to check whether such a detector can be used for transverse Schottky diagnostics in LHC.