[Ian, Paco]

We opened the ITMX chamber and

• Inspected PR2 and LO1 and didn't see anything suspicious.
• Took the EQ stops off ITMX in preparation for alignment

Alignment:

• Ian started at the ETMX station, slightly tweaking the M1 M2 XAUX mirrors by hand and Paco on the ITMX chamber looking at the beam. The beam was visibly making it to the ITMX optic and reflecting back though at a negative pitch angle. No small motion on the M1-M2 knobs caused visible correction on this.
• We decided to try adding an alignment offset to ITMX, and quickly saturated to 25000 (on the SUS screen) but fell short of fully correcting this PIT offset.
• We scanned further the M1 M2 input alignment, and briefly lost the first reflection.
  • We recovered the first reflection, but the beam spot is now incident near the LL OSEM position.
• We kept scanning M1 - M2 with Ian on the ITMX chamber this time, providing feedback through facetime.
• Leaning on the ITMX chamber table, we noticed the magnitude of PIT correction left to be done and verified that M1-M2 two axis alignment + ITMX offsets should be enough for it.

We stopped our effort here, the XAUX beam spot is near the lower half of the ITMX face. Tomorrow, we will resume, but we will use airpods and a clean go-pro for real-time audiovisual feedback. Furthermore, ITMX OSEMs should be rebalanced as they haven't been touched after the table was balanced for PR2 and LO1.