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DESY focuses on HERA On 1 October, a special 'Fest- years of presenting news bulletins of grated, overall economic integration Kolloquium' at DESY marked the offi HERA construction progress, was was not proceeding so smoothly. cial start of the research programme proud to announce the start of opera After Vice-Chairman of the DESY at the new HERA electron-proton tions. Research Council Gustav Kramer collider, which began operations ear Leonhard Hajen, Senator for Sci congratulated the HERA team on lier this year (July, page 2). The tim ence and Research of the City of their accomplishments, keynote ing could not have been better, as Hamburg, reflected his city's pride in speaker Christopher Llewellyn Smith, HERA performance had improved by being home to a major world Labora long a proponent of the benefits of a factor of ten during the two weeks tory. Hinrich Enderlein, Minister of electron-proton experimentation, beforehand. More than 600 guests Science, Research and Culture of painted a picture of the HERA experi assembled in one of the big halls pre Land Brandenburg reported the suc mental objectives which was well il viously used for assembly of major cessful integration of the Zeuthen lustrated with appealing analogies. components for HERA experiments. (formerly East Berlin) Laboratory into Gus Voss covered the HERA ma Introducing the ceremony, Volker an enlarged DESY infrastructure. chine and its most recent perform Soergel, Chairman of the DESY Di While similar research institutions ance. The machine is behaving as rectorate since 1981, after many were also being successfully inte expected and Voss felt confident that 8 CERN Courier, December 1992 Probably the best cur rent transducer you can buy... 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Llewellyn Smith has been proposed as the next Director General of CERN, in which case he would take office on 1 January 1994. (Photo P. Waloschek) In July, maximum intensity per pro ton bunch had been restricted to about 20 per cent of the 750 microamp design value because of difficulties in the proton supply up stream. After sorting out some mag netic problems in the DESY III proton synchrotron, the proton level in creased, only to run into another bot tleneck in the intermediate PETRA ring. However this is being worked on and the proton should soon improve. With careful beam centering and tune adjustments, the proton beam can be kept for about a day, the elec tron beam being refreshed several times during this period. The HERA superconducting magnets are per forming well, and, last but not least, ugly 'persistent' eddy current prob lems widely expected to plague pro it would reach its design objectives luminosities increased from the 6 x ton injection have not materialized, (luminosity) within one or two years. 1028 per sq cm per s achieved in July thanks to the special monitoring sys First results from the experiments to above 1029. Already ten times the tem based on reference magnets. (which had also been aired several luminosity provided during June/July Running has used about ten days before at the DESY Theory has been delivered, the improve Workshop - see -below) were re ments coming mainly from better sta 600 guests were at the HERA 'Fest- ported by Sergei Levonian (Moscow) bility of the proton beam and from Kolloquium'at DESY. for the H1 experiment and Matthias increased reliability. (Photo K. Desler) Kasemann (DESY) for Zeus. Finally Bernd Neumann, Parliamen tary State Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Research and Technol ogy, assured the audience that his Government will fulfil all its obliga tions for high energy physics, where Germany's annual expenditure is cur rently running at about 500 million deutschmarks, mainly for CERN and DESY. The goal, he said, is now op timum utilization of existing resources and facilities. HERA back on After a short shutdown following its initial production run in July, the new HERA electron-proton collider re started on 20 August. Maximum 10 CERN Courier, December 1992 bunches per beam. The design figure at low frequency (S-band) with con their public debut at the International is 210 bunches in both beams, but ventional cavities and lower fre Conference on High Energy Physics efforts to push more current into the quency TESLA (superconducting) in Dallas in August (October, electron ring are currently coming up schemes. However with having to page 6). against problems. These are not look after the nine DESY machines These initial presentations show avoided by the powerful bunch-to- currently operating, DESY's machine dramatically how HERA probes deep bunch damping system, based on a specialists already have a lot on their inside interesting and hitherto very design successfully used in the plate. remote new kinematical regions, now PETRA ring, which has already dem called 'deep diffractive' in the trade. onstrated how well it can counter co and theory with flavour As well as charting photoproduction herent instabilities in both PETRA rates at higher energies, results al and HERA beams. The problem can With first results from the HERA elec ready given at Dallas, the analyses be partially overcome by careful orbit tron-proton collider now emerging, had subsequently sharpened to pro steering, but this is treating the symp this year's traditional Theory Work duce evidence for photoproduction toms rather than the cause. A special shop at DESY could change gear. jets, confined sprays of hadrons sig positron run planned for November This annual event has become a fo nalling constituent interactions deep could reveal more. cus for the large theory community in inside the target protons. With the luminosity per bunch al DESY and even further afield. Under After this foretaste of HERA physics ready running at about 30% of the the theme 'Flavour Physics', the to come, attention turned to the main design level, the electron and proton meeting set the scene for HERA's business of the meeting. Today's intensities are the main obstacle to appearance, and looked at the poten Standard Model uses six quark fla more HERA collisions. tial impact this new experimental vours, grouped pairwise with three The design energy of the electron venture could have.