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

                             Juelich, June 1, 2010


Dear colleagues,

let me inform you on the following:

during the Beirat preparatory meeting last week at IKP, the idea has come up 
to join the two large internal COSY experiments, ANKE and WASA, to a single 
one which would boost their individual advantages. These are in brief:

ANKE:
- forward spectrometer with acceptance for charged particles around zero 
  degrees, i.e. for reactions very close to threshold:
- excellent charged Kaon i.d.;
- different targets (foil, cluster, polarized) can be used.

WASA:
- large acceptance for charged and neutral particles with good particle i.d.;
- high luminosity with pellet target;

In combination, these properties would allow new reactions to be studied at 
COSY (in the years ~2015 - 20xx).
To further develop this idea we should first define a solid physics point.  
Our discussions are in a very preliminary stage.

With this mail we ask you to think a little (more) about the above mentioned 
issues and, as a first step, provide additional input for the physics case. 
Such a big project certainly can only be motivated if we have an excellent 
physics point. Please also forward this mail to everybody who might be able 
to contribute good ideas. 

Please send your contributions and input to me as soon as possible. We want to 
collect these for the next preparatory meeting (June 8) for the IKP Beirat
(October 28/29). 

A further meeting where the discussions will be continued is foreseen around 
the COSY-PAC meeting, i.e. June 28/29.




Best regards,
Andro Kacharava