@inproceedings{1ca82b1a169046abaddfbcf879c20349,
title = "The performance of the beam conditions and radiation monitoring system of CMS",
abstract = "The Beam Conditions and Radiation Monitoring System (BRM), is installed in CMS to protect the CMS detector from high beam losses and to provide feedback to the LHC and CMS on the beam conditions. The primary detector subsystems are based on either single crystal diamond sensors (BCM1F) for particle counting with nanosecond resolution or on polycrystalline diamonds (BCM2; BCM1L) for integrated signal current measurements. Beam scintillation counters (BSC) are also used during low luminosity running. The detectors have radiation hard front-end electronics and are read out independently of the CMS central data acquisition and are online whenever there is beam in the LHC machine. The various sub-systems exploit different time resolutions and position locations to be able to monitor the beam induced backgrounds and the flux of particles produced during collisions. This paper describes the CMS BRM system and the complementary aspects of the installed BRM sub-detectors to measure both single particle count rates and signal currents originating from beam backgrounds and collision products in CMS.",
author = "Dabrowski, {A. E.} and N. Bacchetta and Bell, {A. J.} and E. Castro and M. Guthoff and R. Hall-Wilton and M. Hempel and H. Henschel and W. Lange and W. Lohmann and S. M{\"u}ller and O. Novgorodova and D. Pfeiffer and V. Ryjov and D. Stickland and R. Walsh",
year = "2011",
doi = "10.1109/NSSMIC.2011.6153979",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781467301183",
series = "IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "489--495",
booktitle = "2011 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, NSS/MIC 2011",
address = "United States",
note = "2011 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, NSS/MIC 2011 ; Conference date: 23-10-2011 Through 29-10-2011",
}