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

                             Juelich, November 4, 2004

Dear colleague,


As announced last week, draft of a letter for PRL 

"Observation of an excited hyperon state in pp -> pK+ Y0*"

is in preparation. The file can now be downloaded from 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 the end of the week. In particular, the list of authors should
be carefully checked. Please let me know your suggestions for
additional co-authors also until the end of this week. It is now
planned to submit the letter next week.

So far only very few abstracts for the DPG spring meeting 2005 have
been prepared. Please send me your contribution until tomorrow since
the deadline for submission is already on Monday (n.b.: YOU have to
take care of submission!).

As you might know, the TOF collaboration is currently searching for a
Pentaquark signal during a beam time scheduled for weeks 42-46. During
the "meeting of the representatives of the large experimental
installations at COSY (Elefantenrunde)" last week it has been
recommended to prolong the measurements by two weeks provided that a
reasonable improvement of a possible Pentaquark signal may be
expected. This (highly likely) change of the COSY beam schedule will
affect the ANKE beam time scheduled for weeks 47/48 which probably
will be shifted to January. A detailled beam schedule will be worked
out after the PAC meeting on Monday/Tuesday.

                           Best regards, Markus Buescher