A study Group of the ESONE Committee has been exploring possible ways to extend the use of the CAMAC Dataway (1) in a manner that will maintain compatibility with existing CAMAC hardware. Major areas having attention are greatly increased addressing within a module, handshake timing on the dataway and a mechanism to allow Auxiliary Controllers to address modules in other crates. These extensions will allow those users and. manufacturers who already have a commitment to CAMAC to better exploit new devices, such as large RAMs, that are now available. This paper describes the objectives and the present progress that has been made.
During the past 18 months, over 300 physicists and engineers have participated in a Working Group, set up by the European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA), to study a project for a Large Electron Positron colliding-beam machine (LEP), in Europe in the 1980s. 20 specialized subgroups have investigated technical questions in various areas, and the likely impact of LEP on subnuclear physics and the physics community. The data-handling subgroups have concluded that techniques currently available, with continued development, will be adequate to meet the technical requirements of LEP experiments. However, there is an urgent need for standard practices at all levels of data handling, to ensure that experiments can be carried out by collaborations involving large numbers of physicists from many institutes.
Berzelius failed to make use of Faraday's electrochemical laws in his laborious determination of equivalent weights.