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===========================NUMBER 168, DECEMBER 2008==========================
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      (Edited by: A.Kacharava, FZ Juelich, IKP; a.kacharava@fz-juelich.de)

                           Juelich, December 5, 2008


Dear colleagues,


let me inform you on the following:

1. Papers:
-  the paper - "Measurement of the pn->dK+K- total cross section close 
   to threshold" (Y.Maeda et al.), has been submitted to PRC (rapid comm.)

-  the paper - "Neutron-proton charge-exchange amplitudes at 585 MeV" 
   (D.Chiladze et al.), has been submitted to EPJA.

2. PAC#36:
   according to the discussions at the last PAC meeting, the final decision 
   on ANKE proposal #195 - "Investigation of FSI in the pd->He3 K+K- reaction 
   near threshold" (Spok. A.Dzyuba), has been postponed up to the next PAC meeting 
   in September 7/8, 2009. The new proposal from ANKE/PAX collaboration #198 
   has been accepted and granted 1 week beamtime.


3. Beamtime:
   final scheduling of the ANKE beamtimes (11 weeks!) in the first half 
   of 2009 will be available after CANU meeting. 

   For the time being the PRELIMINARY scheduling is such:
   the first 3 weeks in January is fixed for maintenace; the weeks 4,5,6 is
   devoted to the TOF experiment (#141.4) with polarized proton beam; 
   then weeks 7,8,9,10 is the ANKE experiment #191 (M.Hartmann) with
   unpolarized proton beam.

   After that will follow the ANKE experiments: 1 MD week + 1 week #158.2 
   (A.Kulikov) + 3 weeks #192 (S.Dymov) with polarized proton beam. 

   After the next maintenance weeks (??) in April (after the installation
   of the ABS), will follow the double-polarized experiment 1+4 weeks #172.1 
   in May (A.Kacharava).

     
4. CANU/FFE workshop (15/16 December):
   The annual CANU meeting + FFE workshop at Bad Honnef will take place in 
   this year during December 15-16. There is a suggestion for several talks 
   from ANKE: M.Hartmann, S.Dymov, A.Khoukaz, R.Engels, M.Mikirtychiants, and
   k.Grigoriev

   
5. DPG meeting (March 16-20):
   Let me remind you that the deadline for submission of the short 
   abstracts of the talks is December 15 (!). 
   Please, register and submit the abstracts ASAP !


6. Annual report:
   In this year it is rather urgent to prepare in time the Annual report 
   contributions, because of POF-2 evaluation is forseen in second half of 
   February 2009. 
   Please, prepare your promised articles which could be identified from 
   the list available on ANKE web!


7. Forward Look:
   Let me inform you, that the annual meeting "Forward Look" will take 
   place on 19-th of December, at IKP. The accompanying party will be 
   postponed until February. On February 9/10, 2009, we will have 
   a "Wilkin-Fest" on the occasion of Colin Wilkin's 70-th birthday.
   Programme will be announced soon.

    



Best regards,
Andro Kacharava