Photographs of our visit to SuperACO

(LURE - Univerisity of Paris-Sud)

In Spring 1999, we transported ourselves and our equipment to Orsay to work in collaboration with Alain Huetz and Jean Mazeau. During our 2 month stay we used the SU6 and SB7 beamlines to investigate photodouble ionisation of helium with linear (undulator) and circular polarised light. This was the first time we have taken our apparatus abroad to a synchrotron source - here are a few photographs to capture the event. It was an informative and productive time and we hope to be able to do it again!

Jean Mazeau helping with the unloading of our apparatus from the truck.

Getting craned into position: anxious moments - don't drop it guys!

(L-R) Alain Huetz, Tim Reddish and Jean Mazeau aligning the apparatus to the photon beam.

PhD Student, Carol Dawson securing the
differential pumping section of the apparatus.
Slobodan and Nicolas giving final checks to the toroidal spectrometer.

Slobodan Cvejanovic (centre) setting up the
spectrometer with Alain Huetz and Carol Dawson.
Students, Carol and Nicolas, with our daunting array of electronics.

Michel Lavollee checking out our apparatus!

Tim Reddish - pretending to be working - with the spectrometer on beamline SU6.