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===========================NUMBER 202, January 2012===========================
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      (Edited by: A.Kacharava, FZ Juelich, IKP; a.kacharava@fz-juelich.de)

                             Juelich, January 13, 2012


Dear colleagues,

Most of you probably know already that our colleague and friend Vladimir 
P. Koptev died yesterday (January 12) on his way home from the Institute. 
This news comes as a terrible surprise and shock to all of us. We have seen
Vladimir coming to Juelich for many years, first to build ANKE together with
Otto Schult (and others) and later to use it in experiments. He was highly
respected within the collaboration because of his deep insight into both the
detector and the science as well as for his wholehearted commitment to the
projects. He was appreciated by all of us because of his wry sense of humour
and his friendly character.

We realized that his health had degraded in more recent times, but we 
all had hopes that he would still be able to come back to Juelich once again 
in the Spring. We also had plans for a common workshop in Gatchina, which he 
now will miss. Our thoughts are with his family and his colleagues in Gatchina.
We will certainly miss him a lot and think it appropriate to dedicate the
paper below to the memory of Vladimir!

The final version of the paper "Momentum dependence of the phi-meson nuclear
transparency" (including the author list), prepared by the EDITORIAL 
TEAM (M.Hartmann et al.,) for submission to PRC , is now available from our 
home page. The paper will be submitted early next week. 
If you have any comments, please contact Michael Hartmann.


Best regards,

Hans Stroeher
Andro Kacharava
(on behalf of the ANKE collaboration)