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In Forschungszentrum Juelich the control and data acquisition systems for several neutron spectrometers are being built. Because some of these spectrometers will be commissioned to the new research reactor FRM-II at the technical university of Munich, there was a joint effort with the instrumentation group of the FRM-II to establish the "Juelich-Munich standard", which is basically a collection of tools and devices which are used for the implementation of the spectrometers. This includes: Siemens S7 PLCs for all axis movement issues, PROFIBUS DP for the connection of slow control equipment in the front end, TACO Middleware running on PC-Systems with Linux, python for scripting and Qt for the implementation of GUIs. The paper describes the implementation the control and data acquisition system of the KWS-1, the first experiment built according to the above standard, Comment: Nobugs 2002 conference, paper A-4

Using JAVA for process control requires the access to I/O-Hardware. This problem is addressed in several ongoing standardisation efforts for Real Time Java. A spin-off of these standardisation efforts is the Siemens product JFPC (Java for Process Control), which is based on the ideas of OPC (OLE for Process Control). It is available under the proprietary RT kernel RMOS and under Windows NT. Based on a contract with Siemens, ZEL - the central electronics facility of Forschungszentrum Juelich - has implemented JFPC under Linux. Additionally, several JFPC providers, e.g for accessing industrial components via PROFIBUS DP have been implemented., Talk at ICALEPCS01, San Jose

The present data support a large anisotropy in accordance with phase shift predictions and in contrast to another recent experiment., 6 pages, latex, 4 figures

K+ meson production in pA (A = C, Cu, Au) collisions has been studied using the ANKE spectrometer at an internal target position of the COSY-Juelich accelerator. The complete momentum spectrum of kaons emitted at forward angles, theta < 12 degrees, has been measured for a beam energy of T(p)=1.0 GeV, far below the free NN threshold of 1.58 GeV. The spectrum does not follow a thermal distribution at low kaon momenta and the larger momenta reflect a high degree of collectivity in the target nucleus., 4 pages, 3 figures

A stack of annular detectors made of high purity germanium was used to measure simultaneously $pd\to {^3H} ��^+$ and $pd\to {^3He} ��^0$ differential cross sections at beam momenta of 750 MeV/c, 800 MeV/c, and 850 MeV/c over a large angular range. The extracted total cross sections for the $pd\to {^3He} ��^0$ reactions bridge a gap between near threshold data and those in the resonance region. The ratio of the cross sections for the two reaction channels taken at the same $��={p^{cm}_��}/m_��$ yields $2.11\pm0.08$ indicating that a deviation from isospin symmetry is very small., 23 pages, latex, 15 figures

We have measured the reaction p + d -> 3He + eta at a proton beam energy of 980 MeV, which is 88.5 MeV above threshold using the new ``germanium wall'' detector system. A missing--mass resolution of the detector system of 2.6% was achieved. The angular distribution of the meson is forward peaked. We found a total cross section of (573 +- 83(stat.) +- 69(syst.))nb. The excitation function for the present reaction is described by a Breit Wigner form with parameters from photoproduction., 8 pages, 2 figures, corrected typos in header