block for that purpose (3GPP TS 38.211). The SS/PBCH block includes synchronization signals such as the Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS), Secondary Synchronization Sig- nal (SSS), and PBCH. In contrast to LTE, each serving cell of the NR system can transmit more than one SS/PBCH block with different periodicities within the set of {5, 10, 20, 40, 80, 160} ms. However, irrespective of the used SS/PBCH block periodicity, each of the multiple SS/PBCH block transmissions in the cell is always confined to a duration of 5 ms. Multiple SS/PBCH blocks are required to support downlink beamforming on the synchronization signals in order to achieve better coverage, for example, in mmWave spectrum. The max- imum number of SS/PBCH block transmissions depends on the configuration but cannot exceed a maximum of 8 SS/PBCH blocks in FR1 and 64 SS/PBCH blocks in FR2. A larger maximum number of SS/PBCH blocks is required in FR2 to support a larger number of downlink beams with narrower beamwidth compared with FR1. An SS/PBCH block can be transmitted using different numerologies depending on the FR: 15 or 30 kHz SCS can be used for FR1, and 120 or 240 kHz can be used for FR2. The SS/PBCH position in the time domain is determined from the numerology, which in most cases can be uniquely derived from the frequency band. In the frequency domain, the position of the SS/PBCH block is configured by higher layers and, unlike LTE, does not necessarily coincide with the center of the system bandwidth (carrier raster). Moreover, the SS/PBCH block position is not necessarily aligned with the PRB grid. To reduce the UE complexity and power consumption associated with cell search in NR, the synchronization raster used for SS/PBCH block transmission (and therefore for NR cell search at the UE) is sparser than the carrier raster and also made dependent on the considered band. The position of the SS/PBCH block in the frequency domain is indicated relative to "Point A" (see Figure 3.5.4), which is the common reference point used for the alignment