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===========================NUMBER 108 DECEMBER 2004===========================
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      (Edited by: M.Buescher, FZ Juelich, IKP; m.buescher@fz-juelich.de)

                             Juelich, December 22, 2004

Dear colleague,



a draft of an article 
  "Background reduction by a getter pump around the ionization volume of
  a Lamb-shift polarimeter and possible improvements of polarized ion
  sources", 
has been prepared and will be submitted to the Review of Scientific
Instruments. The corresponding file is available on our web page
http://www.fz-juelich.de/ikp/anke/en/publications.shtml. As usual,
everybody is asked to read this draft and to send his/her comments
until Jan. 7 to Ralf Engels. As always, the list of authors should be
carefully checked.

We decided to shorten the time for exp. 125.1 from two to one week and
to schedule exp. 140 not in spring 2005 but at a later time. The free
three weeks will be given to exp. 104.1 (pp -> pp K+K-). The new COSY
beam schedule is in preparation and will be available on the web soon.


Finally, I wish you and your families merry Christmas and a happy new year
2005! I hope that the forthcoming year will be as successful for our
collaboration as the year 2004. 


                           Best regards, Markus Buescher