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Photographs of our visit to The Photon Factory

(KEK - Tsukuba, Japan)

In December 1999 and January 2000, we airfreighted our apparatus to Japan to work in collaboration with Akira Yagishita, Kouichi Soejima, Atsunori Danjo and Kazuhiko Okuno, together with Alain Huetz (Orsay, France). During our 2 month stay we used the helical undulator beamline (BL-28A) to investigate circular dichroism in photodouble ionisation of helium. It was quite an untaking to transport our equipment so far and here are a few photographs to capture the event.

Photon Factory (PF) Office Block at dusk

View of Mount Tsukuba with the PF storage ring building in the foreground

View of the Linac which serves the KEK facility

Everybody lends a hand at unpacking and setting up the equipment!

Our Japanese Friends:

Dr Kouichi Soejima

Professor Akira Yagishita

Professor Atsunori Danjo

Alain assisting Slobodan in tuning the spectrometer

Tim and Slobodan scrutinising a Mathcad document!

Alain and Carol sharing a joke

The New "Boys": Stephen Collins (left) and Nick
Seccombe (above), get 'thrown in at the deep end'.

All that hard work makes you very hungry!

Stephen, Slobodan and Alain relaxing on a day out to Mount Tsukuba