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The electronics of the read-out and control system for three detectors: calorimeter, spectrometer and 6 m tagger, was finally mounted and put into operation. The final electronics system consists two main modules connected via transmission cables. In the first one there are several crates containing front-end electronics and slow control boards located next to particular detectors. The second module includes fast analog to digital converter (FADC) and data acquisition (DAQ) crates and is located in the ZEUS hall. The new luminosity DAQ system was synchronized with the ZEUS DAQ system and the connections to the first and second levels of the ZEUS trigger system GFLT, GSLT) and Event Builder were partially established. As far as software is concerned, the procedure for online and offline luminosity measurements after HERA uprage, was improved and extented. The simulation of and beam line from IP up to the luminosity monitor, as required for the ZEUS detector simulation in program MOZART, has been started.

Measurement of the Total Photoproduction Cross Section UTOT CY) J. Chwastowski 0 0 co0 In 1952, Heisenberg predicted rise of the total cross section with energy. A similar predicton put 0 forward by Regge and ribov was based on the analytical properties of the scattering amplitude. Experimentally, this effect was confirmed in proton - proton collisions at CERN. With the advent of HERA it was possible to study high energy behaviour of the photoproduction total cross section. The ZEUS Collaboration found the photoproduction total cross section, at the average -proton center-of-mass energy of 209 GeV, to be:

u7 (W 209 GeV) = 174 ± I stat. ± 13(syst.) mb .

This measurement is shown in Fig. 1. together with an earlier result of the H Collaboration and the lower energy data [1]. The curves shown, labeled DL98 and ZEUS fit, are the model predictions

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Fig. 1: The photon-proton total cross section as a 130 - function of photon-proton center-of-mass energy. The present measurement is shown as the filled square. Also shown are the published HI value (open square), the low-energy data (filled circles), 100 I 10L 100 the DL98 parameterization (dot-dashed curve) and WV (GeV) the ZEUS fit (solid curve).

based on the Regge - Gribov theory. In particular these models predict the same energy dependence of the total cross sections for the photon - proton, proton - proton and anti-proton - proton cross sections. Reference: 1. ZEUS Collaboration, "Measurement of the Photon-Proton Total Cross Section at a Center-of-Mass Energy of 209 GeV at HERA", DESY-01-216, December 2001, submitted to Nuclear Physics B.