  The extremely low dark current of silicon carbide (SiC) detectors, even after
high-fluence irradiation, was utilized to develop a beam monitoring system for
a wide range of particle rates, i.e., from the kHz to the GHz regime. The
system is completely built from off-the-shelve components and is focused on
compactness and simple deployment. Beam tests using a 50 um thick SiC detector
reveal, that for low fluences, single particles can be detected and counted.
For higher fluences, beam properties were extracted from beam cross sections
using a silicon strip detector. Overall accurate results were achieved up to a
particle rate of 109 particles per second.
