Observation of the Dynamic Beta Effect at CESR with CLEO

Using the silicon strip detector of the CLEO experiment operating at the Cornell Electron-positron Storage Ring (CESR), we have observed that the horizontal size of the luminous region decreases in the presence of the beam-beam interaction from what is expected without the beam-beam interaction. The dependence on the bunch current agrees with the prediction of the dynamic beta effect. This is the first direct observation of the effect.Comment: 9 page uuencoded postscript file, postscritp file also available through http://w4.lns.cornell.edu/public/CLNS, submitted to Phys. Rev.

The activity of cobalt and silicon in the Co - Si system with special focus on the {alpha} - Co solid solution

The activities of cobalt and silicon at 1463 K have been determined across the whole composition range in the Co - Si system, including the {alpha} - Co solid solution, for which no activity data were previously available. Simple and reactive Knudsen effusion mass spectroscopy employed in this work were shown to successfully overcome problems normally encountered in studying high-temperature solid binary systems, such as slow equilibration and low partial pressures of the components. The composition dependence of the cobalt activities within the {alpha} - Co solid solution phase was used to calculate the self-interaction coefficients of silicon in {alpha} - Co: ln {gamma}{sub Si} = 10.4 {+-} 0.2 and {epsilon}{sub Si}{sup (Si)} = 18.6 {+-} 0.8. The regular solution model was shown to be a fairly good description of the {alpha} - Co solid solution, with an energy parameter Z{sub CoSi} of -120 {+-} 5 kJ{center_dot}mol{sup -1}. The results compare well with literature data on similar systems, such as Fe - Si and Ni - Si