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============================NUMBER 5, MARCH 1996===============================
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                   (Edited by M.Buescher, KFA Juelich, IKP)
                       
                             Juelich, March 25 1996
Dear colleague,

in these ANKE news of March 96 I have the following news for you:

As announced in a previous issue of our ANKE news the meeting of the
review committee on 'Detectors and Polarized Targets at ANKE' took
place here in Juelich on March 6. We are now waiting for the referee
report. 

The proposal on K- production at ANKE by Heinz Mueller et al. has been
finished and sent to the PAC members. It will probably be discussed
during the PAC meeting on April 16 and 17. You can find a copy on our
server in the subdirectory '/pub/ikp2/anke/proposal/'.

There is a new ANKE memo written by A.Kacharava et al. about the
feasibility of the deuteron break-up experiment at ANKE. Counting
rates and the influence of various background channels are
investigated. You can find the memo under:
'/pub/ikp2/anke/memos/sim_290296_1.ps'.  

L.v. Horn and M. Hartmann have compared the calculation times of
a typical data-analysis application on a DEC-Alpha workstation and a
PENTIUM-PC. It turned out that both types of computers have comparable
speeds. Due to the substantially lower price of PCs we have decided to
use them for the data analysis at ANKE. The computers will be bought
when we need them. 

On our ftp server you can now find a new subdirectory called
'/pub/ikp2/anke/transparencies'. It contains a few (coloured) ANKE
related transparencies which you can use for talks and presentations.
They should be printed out using a colour printer. The
files are in (gziped) postscript format and also available as
TGIF-object files.  

The University-of-Muenster members of the ANKE collaboration will
build and operate at ANKE a cluster target of the COSY-11 type. The
target is scheduled to be ready for operation at ANKE in the course of
1997. In June 1996 there will be the next meeting related to the
cluster target here in Juelich. 

According to R. Koch the RAL 170 wafers, which are supposed to read out
the Rossendorf and possibly also the Dubna MWPC's, were produced in
February 96. Unfortunately we have to accept further unexpected
delay. The company which got the order for packaging of the chips from
Rutherford Lab., can deliver only at the beginning of April. After
delivery some chips will be sent immediately to Rossendorf to
H. Langenhagen who is ready to start the tests. The RAL 111 chips
which accept the RAL 170 output for data reduction and delay are
supposed to be delivered until April 30. The electronic board for the
complete chamber read out is tested actually by ZEL at KFA.   
Provisionally the RAL 110 chips are used instead of the RAL 170
as input stage.  


                       Best regards, Markus Buescher