Operation and performance of the Probe for Luminosity Measurement at LHCb
The Probe for LUminosity MEasurement (PLUME) detector is a dedicated luminosity monitor at the LHCb interaction point. It is a hodoscope comprising 48 Hamamatsu R760 photomultiplier tubes that detect Cherenkov light produced by particles travelling in the direction opposite to the LHCb spectrometer acceptance. PLUME pr...